Money and Banks

Jeff Deist and Danielle Booth discuss whether—or if—the Federal Reserve can ever return to "normal" monetary policy.

The history of shadow banking development confirms Mises’s thesis that each government intervention leads to unintended consequences.

Nomi Prins previews her talk at our event in Ft. Worth, based on her new book Collusion: How Central Bankers Rigged the World.

It is unfortunate that a scholar as careful as Robert Skidelsky has chosen to downplay the historical reality of the failure of central banking.

Restrained by both ideology and public sentiment, central banks were once kept from the sort of antics they now regularly indulge in.

Today the world's oldest central bank turns 350. In a just world, this anniversary would instead be an opportunity to end this monstrous experiment.

Patrick Byrne on blockchain technology as a revolutionary force.

To build wealth, we must first build capital and greater productivity. And that depends on savings.

Can we decouple money from government control, and make us all wealthier and more stable in the process?

Caitlin Long discusses the blockchain's disruptive influence on our existing notions of money and wealth.