Money and Banking

Joseph Salerno discusses the Hoppean method of addressing economic controversies.

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.

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.

So how about it, Mr. Powell? A real economy operates without ultra-low interest rates and activist central bank stimulus.

The Bank of Canada's official mandate to promote the “the economic and financial well-being of Canadians,” isn't compatible with the Bank's real mandate which is apparently to look out for the good of a small number of powerful banks.

The Fed and the ECB have taken two different paths since the 2008 crisis. Here's what you need to know.