Money and Banks

Scott Sumner's Market Monetarist framework is seductively simple, but relies on a definitional trick.

This timeless insight was already suggested by economist Ludwig von Mises in 1940.

When interest rates increase in the future, busts and losses for banks will follow.

Europe must identify ways to limit their dependence on the US financial system – or else indeed be reduced to de facto-vassal status to DC.

We're in a boom period, but housing construction is scant — which is making housing less affordable.

Contrary to what the Keynesians will say, a stronger yen could be good for Japan. 

Money is not neutral, and changes in the money supply set into motion a variety of unpredictable movements. 

Argentina's president Mauricio Macri has been as bad as, if not worse than, his left-wing populist predecessor on the inflation front.

Thanks to the defeat of the more fiscally responsible member states, the EU has become a de facto transfer union. 

In this interview, Joseph Salerno discusses how he and Murray Rothbard developed a better measure of the money supply.