Will a New BRICS Currency Change Anything? Maybe
As the US government debases the dollar, other nations take notice and possibilities increase that another currency based on sound principles might emerge.
As the US government debases the dollar, other nations take notice and possibilities increase that another currency based on sound principles might emerge.
The elite playbook: blame the people so they fight each other.
Even when currency is backed by gold, governments have many political reasons to pursue national, territorial currencies. Now there are hundreds of national currencies. It didn't have to be this way.
Every bank in America lines up to receive free money from America’s central bank. The Fed will eventually expand its balance sheet by trillions of dollars more, and they’ll tell us that it would have been worse if it weren’t for the Fed.
Featuring Jonathan Newman at the Mises Institute's recent event in Birmingham, Alabama dedicated to the global threat of "The Great Reset".
Canada created its central bank during the Great Depression, ostensibly to stabilize the currency and protect the banking system. Today, that system is falling apart, thanks to inflationary central bank policies.
Walter Bagehot, as Jim Grant writes, believed that bankers and central bankers should exhibit financial discipline. He would not recognize today's banking world.
Mark takes a look at the good news on price inflation and why it is better than reported, but probably short-lived.
Bob and Jonathan Newman break down Krugman's incorrect notion that we shouldn't be paranoid about CBDCs.