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Monetary Evolution: Where are we today? Commerce today is dominated by “electronic” transactions. A business that does not support the use of debit/credit cards will be extremely limiting its customer base and will likely not survive. The emergence of this form of money was the credit card...
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Wow, can't believe I missed this and it only got one response. Rothbard was a great economic historian, you can refer to the following works, available at Mises for free in various digital mediums and in print at the Store. America's Great Depression Free: http://mises.org/rothbard/agd.pdf Print...
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Point taken. However I'm not debating the form and makeup of a state, or indeed the virtues of anarchism! What I'm curious about is whether or not the core economic issue is the violent enforcement of a monopoly on currency ( by the state ). Fine, get rid of the FED - let the state control money...
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@ meambobbo Great post, just curious... So... perhaps what might be ideal is a completely open, free-market competition in actual currency? Gold, silver, paper money (backed 100% by X Y or Z) or e-gold, diamonds, vintage cheeses (joke!) or whatever the free-market innovates and finds most convenient...
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This is a new intiative by the FED: "These arrangements will now provide dollars in amounts of up to $30 billion and $6 billion to the ECB and the SNB respectively," the Fed said, extending the term of these swap lines through Sept. 30. Can someone elaborate on this for me? Will this make a...
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The part that you’re missing is the technical aspect of how the Federal Reserve creates money. This is understandable because critics often use the metaphor that the Fed is “printing’ money or “creating money out of thin air.” What actually happens is that the domestic trading desk at the New York Federal...
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i have recently designed the following course for my own use: rigourous introductory study centers around rothbard's 'man, economy, and state', via robert murphy's accompanying study guide as an auxillary map, and with mises' 'human action', 'theory of money and credit'...
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As I was educated in the Keynesian/inflationist school of economics, I have (until recently) always been a believer that moderate inflation is good for the economy, and inflation in general is generally favorable to borrowers. I have always believed in the Fed system because I thought it was better than...
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Currency, by definition, is never "hard;" people keep the hard money and spend the least hard. However, the problem is easy if there is a federal system: the central government is mandated to coin both gold and silver coins, the several States adopt one or the other. If someone finds a reef...
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An expectation of long term inflation would seem to be factored into (loan) interest rates. Rothbard makes this point in "Making Economic Sense", ch. 8: http://www.mises.org/econsense/ch8.asp, in particular: As prices rise, and as people begin to anticipate further price increases, an inflation...