The Fed

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Robert Blumen
Inflation or deflation? Dow 1,000 or wheelbarrow money?
Antony P. Mueller

In a wider historical perspective, the current currency war is the latest conflict in a series of acute crises of the modern international monetary system. In a world of national monetary regimes based on fiat money without physical anchors, domestic monetary instability automatically transforms into exchange-rate instability.

Robert P. Murphy

The Federal Reserve made an obscure announcement in its weekly report. It appeared to be an inconsequential accounting change in the treatment of earnings. The change was buried in such jargon that it took weeks for the financial bloggers to fully digest what had happened — the new move made it effectively impossible for the Fed to go bankrupt!

Robert P. Murphy

He has been saying things that sound surprisingly Austrian in regards to the limits of monetary policy.

Douglas French

Firms have lots of cash on their balance sheet and it's not earning anything. What to do? Buy the competition.

Robert P. Murphy

If Bernanke has to choose between saving rich bankers or the dollar, I am confident he will choose the former. We have good reason to expect rising prices and no dramatic efforts to reverse course.

Kel Kelly
The cause of the European debt crisis, in its simplest form, was overspending by (mainly southern) European governments during the last decade, and especially after the 2008 financial crisis.