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I have thus far found the Mystery of Banking to be an amazing book on the dynamics of the money system. But Rothbard's description of the fractional reserve system does not jive with what I have been taught and this definition becomes essential later on when he explains why fractional reserve banking...
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In the midst of our economic slowdown, the U.S. Treasury Dept has issued what they are calling the "Blueprint for Financial Regulatory Reform". The highlights, as given by an article on Yahoo!'s website , are as follows: --designate the Fed as the primary regulator for market stability...
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The textbook for my Principles of Macroeconomics class, Macroeconomics , 2nd ed. by R. Glenn Hubbard and Anthony Patrick O'Brien, has a section entitled "Money without a Government? The Strange Case of the Iraqi Dinar" (Chapter 13, p. 435 for anyone who is interested) in which the authors...
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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...