The Fed

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Soham Patil

A recent CNN broadcast claimed that deflation was bad for the economy and that we need to adjust to higher prices. As usual, the journalistic “experts” got it backward.

J.R. MacLeod

President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador recently spoke at the Conservative Political Action

Jane L. Johnson

Nearly two decades ago, Congressman Ron Paul identified his campaign with the call to "audit the Fed." Congress ignored him then, but the movement to examine and demystify the Fed now is growing.

David Brady, Jr.

The Federal Reserve claims to be independent and politically neutral. But since its actions have political ramifications, it is impossible for the Fed to be either.

Jonathan Newman

As the Fed engages in rollercoaster monetary policies, the errors that build up during the Fed-induced boom turn into a veritable “circus of errors.”

Frank Shostak

Paul Krugman claims that the real factor determining inflation is the rate of unemployment, not increases in the supply of money. As usual, he is wrong.

Artis Shepherd

The Fed-launched real estate bubble did not just create havoc in residential markets, but also has distorted the commercial real estate market, too. And it is getting worse.

Joshua Mawhorter

Few economists—even the free-market advocates—understand what caused the Great Depression. No, the Fed didn’t cause the Depression by failing to inflate the currency. Instead, it was the Fed’s inflation that led to the disastrous early events.