Yet Another “Operation Twist”?
The Fed's plan will fail: a fall in interest rates cannot cause the economy to grow.
The Fed's plan will fail: a fall in interest rates cannot cause the economy to grow.
Although largely forgotten today, repudiation of public debt is a solid part of the American tradition.
The rest of Europe now wants the Germans to clap loudly and affirm, "I do believe! I do believe in fairies!"
Today's worldwide fiat-money regime has effects that extend beyond what most people would imagine.
Once the economy is deprived of its monetary steroids, the malinvestments will be revealed as wasteful, misplaced capital and labor.
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Robert Murphy uses Paul Krugman's own data to demonstrate the exact opposite of Krugman's conclusions.
In order to reduce a further weakening of the real wealth-generation processes, it is necessary to introduce tighter controls on banks.
A central bank confers no benefit on society at large.
The mistakes made by the Fed are the predictable result of giving control of the monetary and financial system to a government agency.