Fedcoin to the Rescue?
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88 Years Ago, FDR Banned Gold. Will a Bitcoin Ban Be Next?
As FDR’s gold crackdown showed, tyrants know the importance of controlling money in a time of crisis. It appears cryptocurrency could be central banks' next target.
MMT for Conservatives
Jonathan Culbreath thinks conservatives should embrace MMT. He's wrong---nobody should.
A Review of the Fed’s Financial Statements (with Screenshots)
The interest income society pays is just one cost of having a central bank. But what of the actual operating expenses? What are the “brick and mortar” costs of running the Fed?
The Fed’s Annual Audit Is a Long Way from Real Transparency
The notion of “Auditing the Fed’’ has been around for awhile. Technically, the Federal Reserve is audited.
Are Police Departments Really Hiring White Supremacists?
Bureaucracies always benefit from political hysterias. A big one today is that police forces are being infiltrated by white supremacists.
Toshio Murata, R.I.P.
Toshio Murata, a leading Japanese student of Mises, has died at the age of 97.
How I Learned to Start Worrying and Hate the Bombing
It was about this time in March 2003 that the bombs began to fall on Baghdad. I remember it well.
The Lack of a Principled Immigration Policy in the US
To date, no major political party in the United States has issued a coherent, principled policy on immigration.
Are the Fed’s Economic Projections Any Good?
The projections, like the methodology itself, are prone to bias, error, and fallacious reasoning, ultimately amounting to nothing more than guesses. Yet it’s believed this is all part of the planning process.
