Money and Banking

Trump doesn't understand the problem with the boom-bust cycle is the boom phase, not the bust.

Expansionary monetary policy causes economic recessions. It doesn't cure them.

Pumping yet more credit into the Eurozone is as effective as giving adrenalin to a dead horse. 

Existing political tensions within the EU are certain to escalate as the EU falls behind in global economic power, and Brussels, hooked on profligacy, for the first time faces budget cuts.

Joseph Salerno discusses the Hoppean method of addressing economic controversies.

The real problem was the money supply inflation that happened during the boom phase. Combating deflation in the bust phase only superficially treats a symptom of the boom-bust cycle.

London is a major global hub, and a hard Brexit wouldn't change that. But one of the best possible outcomes of Brexit could be a move toward real free trade beyond the faux "free trade" of the EU bloc.

MMT basically holds that governments have control of unlimited amounts of real wealth — thanks to money-printing power. But if this were really true, countries like the USSR and North Korea could simply create money until they became wealthy nations.

Hoppe wrote in 1990 of the road that governments would take to create a one-world government, one-world central bank, and one-world currency. He was almost spot on.

In this testimony to Congress, Joseph Salerno describes how to fix the problem of fractional reserve banking.