Money and Banks
Two Cents on the Penny
Instead of decrying the penny, economists should recognize its potential to combat government inflation and advocate a return to an even harder currency. Coins may be expensive for the government to make, but this ensures that our money retains some value, regardless of what the government does. Do we really want free money?
What You Should Know About Inflation
No subject is so much discussed today — or so little understood — as inflation.
Free Markets in Good Times, Big Government in Bad Times
Larry Elliott in the Guardian writes th
The Fed’s New Tricks Are Creating Disaster
We define a bubble as the outcome of activities that have emerged on the back of loose monetary policy of the central bank.
Pillars of Prosperity: Free Markets, Honest Money, Private Property
More monetary excess
Taking into account not just rapid domestic expansion, but also the sharp fall in the greenback, broad, dollar-denominated money supply went up on
Bennie’s Rule
Professor Bernanke is giving his testimony to Congress. Blah...Blah...Blah.
Money, Banking, and the Federal Reserve: the Complete Transcript
The Federal Reserve System virtually controls the nation's monetary system, yet it is accountable to no one.
Wildcat Banking in the Virtual Frontier
The new banking policy in Second Life has strong parallels to the adoption of 19th-century banking regulations in the real world.