Digital Currency: The Fed Moves toward Monetary Totalitarianism
One hardly can imagine a better tool of social control than a digital currency. Not surprisingly, US monetary authorities are moving in that direction.
Money and Banks
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Why Central Banks Will Choose Recession Over Inflation
The “gas-prices excuse” for inflation will evaporate, and that will be the key test for central banks. The “supply chain excuse” has already disappeared, as has the "transient inflation" claim.
Tax Cuts Do Not Cause Inflation. Printing Does.
Cutting taxes does not add units of currency to the economy. It is the same quantity of currency only a bit more in the pocket of those who earned it.
No Surprise: Wall Street Wants to Raise the Target Inflation Rate above 2 Percent
Twenty-six years ago, the debate was over whether or not the target inflation rate should be raised from zero to 2 percent. Now we're being told it should be 4 or 6 percent.
Why Investors Are Obsessed with the Fed “Pivot”
Investors should not care whether the Fed pivots or not if they analyze investment opportunities based on fundamentals and not on monetary laughing gas.
Private Coinage
"It is surely folly to say that government must socialize all property in order to prevent anyone from stealing property. Yet the reasoning behind abolition of private coinage is the same."
Will Global Rate Hikes Set Off a Global Debt Bomb?
All of the excess of unproductive debt issued during the period of complacency will exacerbate the problem in 2023 and 2024.
The Reichsbank: Germany’s Central Bank Lays Foundation of Monetary Disaster
Long before there was the infamous German inflation of 1923, the Reichsbank created the scenario of monetary debasement.
Do “Technology Shocks” Create the Boom-Bust Cycles?
The 2004 Nobel Prize in economics was awarded to two economists for their claim that "technology shocks" cause boom-bust cycles. They have it wrong.
Honest Money in Dishonest Hands
While we speak of a desire for honest money, the larger problem is that the Federal Reserve System cannot coexist with an honest money regime.
