Money and Banking

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Frank Shostak
Today’s demand for money is determined by yesterday’s purchasing power of money.
Ryan McMaken

The last time the money supply grew at a smaller rate was during September 2008

Frank Shostak
Recessions are the liquidation of a boom that sprang up thanks to a previous period of loose monetary policy.
Frank Shostak
As central banks enable the creation of money out of thin air, wealth creation has suffered, as has worker productivity.
Ryan McMaken

Today, Janet Yellen struck a dovish tone with Congress, saying that the Fed's target interest rate is not really that low after all.

Caleb McMillan

It may be minor, but this week's rate hike should be just high enough so the Bank of Canada can cut them again when things start to get tough.

Tim Price

Those of us who are hostile to central planning are doubly hostile to governmental interference in the price mechanism — the policies of QE and ZIRP.

Mark Thornton
The next economic crisis will be directly tied to the last economic crisis and the policies the Fed used to “solve” it. As such, it should be called the Bernanke-Yellen Crisis.
Frank Shostak
A falling money supply is not the cause of economic contractions. It is usually just a symptom of a larger problem resulting from money-creation out of thin air.
Friedrich A. Hayek
Though the descent of Keynesian doctrine from intellectual respectability can be denied no longer, it still gravely threatens sensible monetary policy.