Money and Banking

Household consumer credit continues to explode.

G-20 nations rubber-stamp plans to have you bail out the too-big-to-fail banks.

Tiny houses are a growing phenomenon as potential homeowners look to cut down on housing costs in the face of an economy rife with booms, busts, and spiking asset prices.

The Netherlands and Germany have disaster plans for the Euro. Do you?

A good sign for the future: Fed economist attacks the Gold Standard.

Zero Hedge reports that Marine LePen of the unexpectedly popular National Front Party in France is now demanding that the French central bank repatriate its gold.

Three cheers to Steve Baker, Conservative MP from Wycombe, for raising the delicate yet important of matter of fractional-reserve banking in Britain's House of Commons.

There is no use talking about a return to a gold standard until the US has abolished the deficit in the federal budget and kept it balanced for a couple of years.

The Swiss are set to vote on a new initiative requiring the central bank to keep at least 20 percent of its assets in gold." How would such a measure be enacted and how would it affect Switzerland's economy?