Money and Banks

Italy is on the brink of a full-blown banking crisis.

The delinquency rate is an indicator for "credit stress," but few are paying attention to its sudden rise. Is a new banking crisis imminent?

Nearly everywhere on the planet the giant financial bubbles created by the central banks during the last two decades are fracturing.

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Elizabeth Warren thinks she can prevent future foreclosure crises by regulating private banks. She should take a hard look at central banks instead.

John Tamny is right that we don't need the Fed. Unfortunately, his new book on the Fed goes off course while explaining why.

The Bank of England has been less reckless than the ECB. But both the UK and the eurozone economies are fragile thanks to loose monetary policy.

If the Fed would quit meddling with interest rates, the natural interest rate would be revealed.

The Fed's terrible record of forecasting has destroyed its credibility to the point that its word no longer means anything.

Henry Hazlitt describes "the open conspiracy" among politicians to refuse to address the national debt.