Money and Banks

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The culture of central banking has ventured so far from a culture of restraint that it's unlikely anything but abolition will now fix matters.

Karl-Friedrich Israel
Anti-gold advocates claim that precious metals are wasteful. This is hardly convincing when we look at the fat budgets and payrolls of central banks.
Ryan McMaken
Getting rid of physical cash only makes an economy more fragile.
Philipp Bagus
Angela Merkel may now be forced to include the Free Democrats in her new coalition. That's bad news for those who favor a more centralized EU.

For many investors who take the long view, there is a big world beyond the stock market.

Ryan McMaken
At the rate we're going, the Fed will need another 8 years to get the target interest rate up to 2 percent.
Frank Shostak
What matters here is not the price levels. What matters are the increases in money supply which undermine the real wealth generation process.
Ryan McMaken
The Trump administration is threatening to cut China off from the US dollar. But this could serve to destroy the dollar's reserve-currency status.
Frank Shostak
Since the present monetary system is fundamentally unstable, there cannot be a "correct" money supply growth rate.
Ronald-Peter Stöferle
The reign of every world reserve currency has to come to an end at some point in time.