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Brendan Brown

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Brendan Brown is a founding partner of Macro Hedge Advisors (www.macrohedgeadvisors.com) and senior fellow at Hudson Institute. As an international monetary and financial economist, consultant, and author, his roles have included Head of Economic Research at Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group. He is also a Senior Fellow of the Mises Institute. He is the author of Europe’s Century of Crises under Dollar Hegemony: A Dialogue on the Global Tyranny of Unsound Money with Philippe Simonnot. His other books include The Case Against 2 Per Cent Inflation (Palgrave, 2018) and he is publisher of “Monetary Scenarios,” Euro Crash: How Asset Price Inflation Destroys the Wealth of Nations and The Global Curse of the Federal Reserve: Manifesto for a Second Monetarist Revolution.

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This Is What Could Trigger Big Growth in CPI Inflation

World History

Blog06/15/2021

Whether today's Great Monetary Inflation (which began in 2011) will end with sustained CPI inflation remains a wide-open question at this point. Prices could be reined in as in the 1990s, or a 1970s-style inflation could still be in store.

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There's No Reprieve in Sight from the "Monetary Repression Tax"

Money and Banking

Blog05/13/2021

There is nothing new in a fiat-money central bank imposing an effective tax on the public’s holdings of government debt by manipulating interest rates. But few thought it could go on this long. 

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Monetary Policy in America Is a Mess. Things Are Even Worse in Europe.

Money and Banking

Blog04/07/2021

America is plagued by mountains of debt, cheap money, and an out-of-control central bank. But the situation with the European Central Bank is even more dangerous. 

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Bitcoin, Gold, and the Rush to National Digital Currencies

Bitcoin

03/04/2021Mises Media
A money which can be held in only one form, whether digital coin (as in the case of bitcoin), or banknote, or sight deposit, or metallic coin, for example, is crippled. Yet, exclusive digital form has become a huge selling point for the promotors of bitcoin.
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Bitcoin, Gold, and the Rush to National Digital Currencies

Blog02/27/2021

A money which can be held in only one form, whether digital coin (as in the case of bitcoin), or banknote, or sight deposit, or metallic coin, for example, is crippled. Yet, exclusive digital form has become a huge selling point for the promotors of bitcoin.

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