Does GDP Present an Accurate Picture of the Economy? Not Likely
The most popular measure of economic growth is GDP. However, GDP movement is driven by changes in the money supply, not real economic factors.
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Paying the Piper: Time to Clean Up the Latest Malinvestments
Austrian business cycle theory points out that easy money leads to malinvestments. Once easy money disappears, the crash begins. Time to clean up malinvested assets.
Charles Schwab and Other Big Banks May Be Secretly Insolvent
While the Fed and the Biden administration try to assure Americans that their banks are safe and secure, the numbers tell a different story.
Does the Inverted Yield Curve Signal a Coming Recession?
Dr. Paul Cwik joins Bob to discuss the inverted yield curve's "signal" of an impending recession.
Government Budget Deficits Cannot Stimulate True Economic Growth
A central tenet of Keynesian economics is that governments must run budget deficits to stimulate economic growth. But government spending actually shrinks the economy.
The Ruling Classes Are Inflation Deniers and the Ship of Fools Sails On
Even after two years of "transitory" inflation, America's ruling classes insist that prices are falling and that all of this is temporary. We don't believe them.
The Fed Is Overindebted, Isn’t It?
By any conventional measures of finance, the Federal Reserve has negative equity. In the long run, cooking the books only puts off the day of reckoning.
A Pyrrhic End to 130 Years of Vicious Bad Money and Banking Crises
The current banking crises have deep roots in US financial history. Monetary authorities have engaged in inflationary behavior for more than a hundred years.
The Failure of the Federal Reserve: The Covid Boom and Unnecessary Intervention
After years of inflationary intervention, the Federal Reserve has no more rabbits to pull out of the hat.
Divide and Control: Central Bankers Blame the Victims
The elite playbook: blame the people so they fight each other.
