A new Fed survey shows that banks are cutting back on lending big time. Over the past thirty-five years, this almost always predicts recession. Our economy can't survive without endless new infusions of easy money.
In this episode of Radio Rothbard, Ryan and Tho take a revisionist Rothbardian lens to American history.
President Biden recently claimed that "trickle-down economics" doesn't work but transferring wealth from taxpayers to politically connected people is the real trickle-down economics.
Ryan McMaken and Alex Pollock talk about the Fed's negative cash flow.
In this episode of Good Money, Tho Bishop is joined by Dr. Jonathan Newman to discuss the real costs of government spending.
Calls for black consumers to "Buy Black" can be interpreted as socially divisive, but they are also a way to encourage black entrepreneurs in a free market.
American corporations are lavishing billions of dollars on leftist groups in the name of "equity." But many of them also are donating to even more questionable people and causes.
Can the injection of new money into the economic system enhance economic growth? Not really. Increasing (or decreasing) the money supply affects the demand for money but doesn't make us wealthier.
The Biden administration has decided that the REAL problem with housing is that the wrong people are saving money and making timely mortgage payments. They must be punished.
Shoddy service, regular breakdowns, and overbudget to boot. There is a reason why government-funded projects always waste resources.
Progressive governments in the name of equity are calling for taxation of capital gains. They really are demanding destruction of capital through capital consumption.
Economically speaking, the US government is bankrupt even if the government won’t admit what is obvious. But how would an actual bankruptcy proceeding go?
With negative growth now falling to near –10 percent, money-supply contraction is now the largest we've seen since the Great Depression.
Modern culture is biased against those that are rich even while depending upon the wealth that successful entrepreneurs have created.
Despite the soothing hot air from the White House and Fed officials, the financial system is becoming increasingly fragile and unstable. Maybe all of that intervention the past decade was not wise.
Mark takes a look at all the wrong predictions of recessions in recent years.
Monetarists believe there is an optimum growth rate of money. However, a fiat money system itself is unstable, so there is no optimum growth rate.
In 1948, Ludwig Erhardt rescued a German economy that was in shambles simply by invoking free markets and currency reform. Our economy needs its Rothbard moment.
Heritage Fellow Peter St. Onge joins Bob to set the record straight on several popular talking points about the debt ceiling.
This episode of Good Money with Tho Bishop features guest Ryan Griggs of Griggs Capital Strategies.
