Inflation Inferno I
Governments and bankers hate gold because its supply cannot be inflated on command.
Booms and Busts
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The “Old Lady” Hasn’t a Clue
A recorded mini lecture and video display purported to explain this mysterious phenomenon (mysterious to the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street, anyway). I knew that I was going to hear either a self-critical explanation or, more likely, some hogwash. Hogwash won, hands down!
Money Can’t Buy You Economic Prosperity
We cannot eat money. We cannot wear money. We cannot live in money. Money can't buy you love.
Pre-Fascist Italy: Tax and Borrow and Spend
The balanced budget passed away definitely in 1911, not to return again until a revolution had swept from the people of Italy their freedom, writes
Fear the Boom, Not the Bust
All of the industrial world's central banks and public treasuries currently are engaged in an impossible exercise.
Foreclosure Water Torture
Home prices peaked five years ago, but a mountain of foreclosures still looms.
The EU Crackup
Political upheaval has hit Finland, and it's merely a foreshadowing of bigger changes ahead.
Boombustology
Mansharamani uses the work of Roger Garrison and other Austrians to great effect. <a href="http://store.mises.org/Boombustology-Spotting-Financial-Bubbles-Before-They-Burst-P10464.aspx">Buy this book in the Mises Store.</a>
The Fed Obliterates the Savings Ethic
Lord Keynes was constantly worried that people were saving too much and consuming too little — thus the need for more and cheaper money to stimulate the economy. Mr. Bernanke is nothing if not a good Keynesian, and his low rates make even the savviest question whether to forgo consumption.
