Fiat and Gold: Two Fixes for a Broken US Monetary Base
The US monetary system is out of sorts and out of control. The authors show a path back from the inflation brink to monetary soundness.
The US monetary system is out of sorts and out of control. The authors show a path back from the inflation brink to monetary soundness.
One hardly can imagine a better tool of social control than a digital currency. Not surprisingly, U.S. monetary authorities are moving in that direction.
Money supply growth slowed even more in October, and is now back to levels we last saw during the repo liquidity crunch of 2019, and in the days right before the 2007–09 recession.
It is easy to think of the Fed as a good institution that simply lost its way. In truth, it was a bad idea and a bad institution from its beginning.
The US monetary system is out of sorts and out of control. The authors show a path back from the inflation brink to monetary soundness.
For all the positive talk, Americans are piling on more debt just as real wages are falling, job losses are mounting, and debt costs are rising. Thanks, Fed!
Federal Reserve officials, for all of their alleged wisdom and education, have a knowledge problem. Hayek and other Austrians could have told them their grandiose plans will fail.
It is easy to think of the Fed as a good institution that simply lost its way. In truth, it was a bad idea and a bad institution from its beginning.
Ending the string of economic crises that have occurred the past two decades will happen only when economies can depend upon sound money.
Many investors forget that when the easy money is flowing, financial mediocrities and even outright frauds can be made to look like legitimate geniuses.