Economic Growth Requires Savings, Not Money Pumping
Keynesians believe that economic growth can occur only with an expanding supply of money. Growth doesn't need more money; it needs more savings.
Keynesians believe that economic growth can occur only with an expanding supply of money. Growth doesn't need more money; it needs more savings.
John Maynard Keynes derided gold-based money as a "barbarous relic," yet it was gold that enabled a long regime of honest money -- and the advance of civilization.
Ending the string of economic crises that have occurred the past two decades will happen only when economies can depend upon sound money.
Ending the string of economic crises that have occurred the past two decades will happen only when economies can depend upon sound money.
The author recalls the 1922 peace dollar his grandfather gave him sixty years ago. Real money.
The author recalls the 1922 peace dollar his grandfather gave him sixty years ago. Real money.
The 2004 Nobel Prize in economics was awarded to two economists for their claim that "technology shocks" cause boom-bust cycles. They have it wrong.
The Gold Standard Restoration Act seeks to once again tie the US dollar to gold.
The Gold Standard Restoration Act seeks to once again tie the US dollar to gold.
Bob and Jeff discuss the nauseating elevation of former Fed Chair Ben Bernanke to Nobel Prize winner.