Money and Banking

Displaying 1841 - 1850 of 2003
Frank Shostak

Contrary to popular belief, interest rates have nothing to do with money. The attempt to manipulate interest via the money supply can only cause distortions. 

Sean Corrigan

Everyone seems to agree that the printing press will forestall recession—everyone, that is, except the Austrians. Sean Corrigan explains why new money confers no social benefit.

Burton Blumert

The Sacagawea $1 coin was introduced with great fanfare. But so far as anyone can tell, it has disappeared. What happened? Burt Blumert explains.

Hans F. Sennholz

The European currency is stuck in a rut because governments have insisted on using the conversion period as an excuse to collect more in taxes. Hans Sennholz explains.

William L. Anderson

Even before the recent rate cuts, Greenspan had opened the monetary spigots, in a duplication of the policy error that led to the artificial boom. William Anderson explains.

William L. Anderson

It was once an economic powerhouse, feared by the U.S., but Keynesian-style macroeconomic planning led to its undoing. William Anderson explains how and why it happened.

Joseph T. Salerno

He has succeeded in misleading almost everyone into accepting a bizarre and idiosyncratic view of the business cycle, writes Joseph Salerno.

Clifford F. Thies

The inflation suffered by the colony of Rhode Island during the early eighteenth century is well-described by the word "wanton." Especially since the engineers of this inflation were the Wanton brothers, John and William, Governor and Deputy Governor of the colony at the time.

Hans F. Sennholz

The system is wide open to abuse, maltreatment, and even corruption, writes Hans Sennholz

Hans F. Sennholz

 If a corporation were to engage in the deceit that is the government's daily business, the SEC would intervene with severity, says Hans Sennholz