The Fed

With each iteration of the banking crisis, the Federal Reserve System and federal regulators gain in power and authority. Maybe the banking crisis isn’t an accident.

On this episode of Good Money with Tho Bishop, Peter St Onge joins the show to discuss this week's Fed announcement and what it means to normal Americans.

The usual suspects are "relieved" that Congress gave President Biden what he wanted on the so-called budget deal. Without sound money, however, the borrowing and spending regime will collapse sooner or later.

As the Fed increases interest rates to reverse the inflation it has caused, firms that depended on easy money will face the bankruptcy judge. Stay tuned; there's more to come.

While the faux debt ceiling drama rages in Washington, DC, governments worldwide are defaulting on their debt via inflation.

Despite all of the inflation-fighting talk from the Fed, the truth is that the government benefits from inflating the currency. We need to know how to defend ourselves.

Can prices be "wrong" (i.e. in disequilibrium) if they are "sticky?" Jonathan Newman joins Bob to discuss. 

We are familiar with the five stages of grief. However, it is not a stretch to apply those stages to what is happening to the banking system. Right now, we are in the second stage: anger.

Fractional reserve banking by itself undermines both the banking system and the economy. No action by the Federal Reserve can eliminate the threats.

Ryan McMaken and Alex Pollock talk about the Fed's negative cash flow.