Ron Paul and Mark Spitznagel Talk Freedom, Farming, and the Fed
Investor Mark Spitznagel and Ron Paul discuss agriculture policy, Wall Street, fiat money, investing, and Ron Paul’s plans for the future.
Money and Banks
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Six Myths About Money and Inflation
Politicians and the mainstream media have faith in the central banks to manipulate and manage the global economy.
Austrians, Fractional Reserves, and the Money Multiplier
Austrian economists have been wrongly accused of many intellectual crimes when it comes to fractional reserve banking. Robert Batemarco adds some clarity to the debate.
Austrians, Fractional Reserves, and the Money Multiplier
Austrian economists have been wrongly accused of many intellectual crimes when it comes to fractional reserve banking.
The Yield Curve and Our Weakened Economy
It’s difficult to envisage a downward-sloping yield curve in an unhampered market economy since this would imply that investors are assigning a higher risk to short-term maturities than long-term maturities. But in today’s economy, an upward or a downward sloping yield curve reflects the Fed’s interest rate policies.
Andy Duncan: The Charade of Independence for UKIP and Scotland
Jeff Deist and Andy Duncan discuss the rise of UKIP in England.
US Sanctions on Russia May Sink the Dollar
US sanctions against Russia are just the latest incentive for the world’s economies to avoid dealing with the dollar, writes Ron Paul.
Six Myths About Money and Inflation
The reality is that hyperinflation is caused by a loss of confidence in the money unit, which the monetary authorities may be incapable of preventing.
The Federal Reserve and the Financial Crisis, by Ben S. Bernanke
There is trouble lurking in each of the book’s four chapters. The text gets off on a wrong foot as Bernanke overviews the origins and purposes of the Fed.
The Savings and Loan Debacle Twenty-Five Years Later: A Misesian Re-Examination and Final Closing of the Book
August 9, 2014 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the signing into law of the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act (FIRREA) of 1989 by U.S. President George Herbert Walker Bush. FIRREA was enacted to clean up the savings and loan (S&L) financial debacle of the 1980s. In articles, books, symposia, and papers written in the wake of the debacle, popular media and mainstream financial economists each provided explanations of the debacle. This paper analyzes and rejects these explanations in favor of an alternative based on Ludwig von Mises’s observation that market interventions create unintended consequences that usually lead to more interventions that in turn create new waves of unintended and worsening consequences until no more interventions are possible.
