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Forget Jerome Powell's fanciful "soft landing" or the notion that the Fed can pull another rabbit from its hat. The banking system is headed for a crash and monetary authorities likely will make things worse.

Frank Shostak

Janet Yellen admits she underestimated inflation, but she still does not realize that inflation is not higher prices, but the increase in fiat money that forces up prices.

Thorsten Polleit

Digitization will undoubtedly bring great improvements and new opportunities for peoples’ lives. But digitization also has a downside.

Frank Shostak

The specter of stagflation is with us again despite Keynesians' claims that a new bout of inflation will lower unemployment. What causes it?

Frank Shostak

Popular economic wisdom says central banks can counter harmful effects of inflation by raising interest rates. Unfortunately, such moves carry their own forms of misallocation of resources and capital.

Manuel Tacanho

Since the early 1960s, African nations have gained political independence from colonial powers, but the monetary colonialism of fiat money continues.