John O’Donnell: How Central Banks Affect Culture
What happens to the future when ultra-low interest rates mean saving is for chumps?
Booms and Busts
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Jim Rickards: The New Case for Gold
Jeff Deist and Jim Rickards discuss gold in the context of current geopolitics and enduring myths about monetary growth.
Amazon = $3 Trillion?
Let us see how close this venture capitalist comes to putting a $3 trillion price tag on Amazon at its all-time high price.
Gross Calls for Helicopter Money
Legendary investor Bill Gross calls on the Fed to bring on Milton Friedman's "helicopter money."
James Grant: The United States of Insolvency
When did fiscal and monetary sanity become a radical position in America? Jeff Deist interviews Jim Grant, editor of Grant's Interest Rate Observer.
Home Prices Outpacing Official Inflation Rate, Household Income
We've replaced saving with consumer debt (i.e., mortgages) and a hope that people can continue to make the high payments every month. It's not a terribly wise long-term economic strategy, but it's one the Fed is banking on.
Booms, Busts, and the Boundaries of Economics
What are the limits to Austrian Business Cycle Theory? Does it need help to explain business cycles?
Why We Need a Recession: To Kill the Central-Bank Casino
There's no need for pessimism over the idea that there is a recession ahead, and that the stock markets must plunge. No, this is the good news!
Japan’s Wild Monetary Experiment Is Far From Over
The Yen remains strong for a variety of reasons. Restrained monetary policy in Japan isn't one of them.
The Week in Review: April 9, 2016
Our greatest enemy today is the economic illiteracy and confusion on the part of those who insist on “planning,” “stabilizing,” and straitjacketing the economy.
