Fed Tries to Figure Out How to Raise Interest Rates by a 1/4 of 1%
The Fed has been messing with interest rates for a century and suddenly they have forgotten how to raise interest rates?
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Transparency or Deception: What the Fed Was Saying in 2007
This paper examines the communications of officials from the Federal Reserve during 2007, the year between the end of the housing bubble and the beginning of the financial crisis.
Joseph Salerno Interviewed on Gold Standard, Fiat Money
Joseph Salerno Interviewed on Gold Standard, Fiat Money...
How Money Production Can Worsen Income Inequality
Money creation does not benefit equally. It creates a class of winners (those who get new money first) at the expense of losers (those who get new money later). Not surprisingly, an inflationary money supply increases the wealth and income gap in society.
Jay Taylor: Austrian Economics and the Next (Bigger) Crash
Jeff Deist and Jay Taylor discuss markets, business cycle theory, and the Fed's latest bubble.
Senate Republicans Bungle Their Interrogation of Janet Yellen
Janet Yellen testified before Congress this week, but the Senate Republicans, who claim to be the guardians of monetary sanity, failed to show any true understanding of monetary policy and the damage the Fed has inflicted.
Diminishing Economic Growth: Is the Fed to Blame?
In this interview, Mark Thornton talks to host Scott Horton about how we are much better off without the fed,
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Jekyll Island, Georgia
Please come to our exclusive Patrons Retreat this October 18-19 on Jekyll Island, Georgia, on the 100th anniversary of the Federal Reserve.
The Natural Rate of Interest Rule
This article reviews the Fed’s performance with particular emphasis on its contribution to the 2008 crisis and then suggests an alternative policy which, had it been in place would have dampened the most recent boom and bust.
