Money and Banking

Displaying 1711 - 1720 of 1996
Robert P. Murphy

I have always been puzzled by the exact mechanisms through which the government keeps us from using gold as money, and my recent inquiries on a pri

Mark Thornton

Inflation is a giant rip off, a stealth tax stealing purchasing power. Money is not neutral. The first receivers of new money benefit. Savers and those on fixed incomes struggle. From 1857 until the war was a period of “free banking” where the fed had nothing to do with the banks and the states had little control over them. High economic growth and prosperity prevailed.

Frank Shostak

Current monetary policy, writes Frank Shostak, is based on a theory of Knut Wicksell. How does Wicksell stack up to Mises?

Grant M. Nülle

The dollar may not die anytime soon but its capacity for lording it over all living things is ending.

Stefan Karlsson

There are some bright spots in the American economy, but look beneath the surface. Stefan Karlsson warns that the downside of bad policy may have been merely postponed. 

Sean Corrigan

To be an Austrian has become oddly fashionable in recent days, observes Sean Corrigan, judging from the number of news reports thus describing commentators on economic and financial affairs.