Monetary Policy

The implementation of Central Bank Digital Currencies isn‘t just about money. It also is about personal freedom and how CBDCs give the government enormous powers over individuals.

More than a century ago, Congress created the Federal Reserve System to intervene in the American economy. Not even the biggest critics of the central bank‘s formation could have predicted the economic disasters it brought about.

The world‘s trading systems are broken, thanks to fiat currencies and the reckless deficit spending by the US government. There is a way out; it is called settling accounts in gold, which would force fiscal sanity once more.

Since the last credible audit in the 1950s, America’s gold reserves have been subject to limited, flawed, and theatrical inspections.

While MMT advocates claim special knowledge, the irony is that they don't understand money at all. Like all progressive statists, they fail to comprehend the economic damage done through their “modern” monetary manipulations.

The Fed is losing record amounts of money, but in the magical world of money-printing, it‘s not a problem for the Fed. It‘s just a problem for the taxpayers.

What determines currency exchange rates? While “experts” present a number of theories such as trade balance, the most important factor is the purchasing power of the currencies in question.

Economics Professor Josh Hendrickson breaks down a little-known document from Trump’s incoming economic adviser, revealing their strategic theory behind tariffs.

Government-sponsored currency means one does not own one‘s money. Cryptocurrency, however, is privately owned, which is a threat to government's money monopoly, potentially creating monetary property rights.

Mainstream economics tells us that we need a growing money supply to keep an economy growing. But what if a growing money supply diminishes economic growth? The Austrians have something to tell us about money growth.