Money and Banks

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C.Jay Engel

Bernie Sanders says he wants to reform the Fed, but Bernie's wrongheaded views on Fed policy demonstrate why it's important to oppose the Fed for the right reasons.

Patrick Barron

Central banks worldwide are putting their faith in negative interest rates. Unfortunately, these central bankers do not understand what interest rates are supposed to do, or how manipulating them will lead to a bust.

Charles Hugh Smith

NIRP will fail miserably, in part because they signal that the central banks are out of options and the economic system is in terminal decline.

Brendan Brown

Central Banks now pay interest on bank reserves held at the Fed. It may sound like only a minor change, barely worthy of notice, but it's actually a very recent and radical experiment for central banks, with large implications for monetary freedom.

Ryan McMaken
The "true money supply" measure is a measure of the money supply pioneered by Murray Rothbard and Joseph Salerno and is designed to provide a better measure than M2. The Mises Institute now offers monthly updates on the TMS metric and its growth.
Paul-Martin Foss

Rather than thinking outside the very little teeny tiny box that academic elites have crammed themselves into, it's far easier for those academics to go with what they know and engage in self-serving and circular arguments.

Frank Hollenbeck

Negative rates will fail because the problem with the economy is not a problem of too little consumption or demand. The problem stems from a distorted economy caused by manipulated interest rates.