Inflation

Consumer confidence is low while Jerome Powell claims he doesn’t care much about the price of precious metals.

Critics of the Austrian Business Cycle Theory claim that capital investors over time will no longer be fooled by artificially-low interest rates triggered by central banks. However, when central banks push easy money policies, the inflation itself sets the ABCT pattern in motion.

The Trump administration (like the Biden White House before it) insists that it has inflation under control, pointing to the CPI. However, other informal measures show inflation to be much higher than the CPI claims.

Politicians are touting “affordability” to describe the current regime of rising prices. However, most lawmakers who claim they are trying to make things more affordable demand policies that make things more costly.

Thanks to the Federal Reserve, the US government will always have enough printed money to fund its tyrannical schemes.

Politicians are touting “affordability” to describe the current regime of rising prices. However, most lawmakers who claim they are trying to make things more affordable demand policies that make things more costly.

It is clear that the government has lost all spending discipline and it would be foolish to believe that it will suddenly regain that discipline absent an external control, namely, gold.

Thanks to the Federal Reserve, the US government will always have enough printed money to fund its tyrannical schemes.

Trump is clearly focused on building a legacy in his second term with his domestic vanity projects and dramatic foreign interventions. But his actual legacy is shaping up to be defined by his lack of progress on affordability.

Hyperinflation has been a scourge throughout history. Professor Mark Thornton has found even more episodes of hyperinflation that have happened over the past several centuries.