Central Banks

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Mark Thornton

The Federal Reserve has what the New York Times called its “biggest shindig” of the year at Jackson Hole, Wyoming next week. What mischief are they up to?

Jonathan Newman

Werner’s experiment is dubious at best. He strawmaned the alternative theories and set up the experiment in such a way that only his preferred theory would be confirmed.

Frank Shostak

Thanks to modern Keynesian economics, most people believe money gains its value from the government that issues it. Money's value, however, is historically tied to the value of the commodity from which money was derived.

Ryan McMaken

Since 1945, the federal government has come to dominate the tech sector with seemingly endless contracts and grants paid for by American taxpayers. This has also created a new class of scientific experts who rely on government funding for much of their work.

Ulrich Fromy

EU Central Bank President Christine Lagarde has declared that anything that might lead to private currencies must be stopped. Yet, as F.A. Hayek noted, one way to confound central banks is through private currencies.

Paulo Ferreira

The Federal Reserve is not the only central bank in the world doing monetary and economic damage. Portugal‘s central bank—working as a branch of the European Central Bank—has been undermining sound money and economic prosperity in that country.