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Chapter 3: How Money Works Today: A Summary.
This chapter summarises how money works today. For convenience’s sake, there will be some repetition of material covered elsewhere. Founded on debt rented…
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Sustainable government debt – an old idea refreshed
New research from the Peterson Institute suggests bond yields may fall once more Demographic forces and unfunded state liabilities point to an inevitable…
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Outrageous fortune
“Isn’t it funny when you walk into an investment firm and you see all of the financial advisers watching CNBC ? That gives me…
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Why monetary easing will fail
The major economies have slowed suddenly in the last two or three months, prompting a change of tack in the monetary policies of central…
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The Difference between Money Supply & Liquidity
The US debt ceiling suspension, signed on February 2018, expires in March this year. According to some experts, the US Treasury will have to…
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Chapter 4: Early Days.
The situation we are in today has evolved over many centuries. Economists had plenty of time and opportunity to comment – and comment…
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Why is savings not about money?
Conventional wisdom says that savings is the amount of money left after monetary income was used for consumer outlays, implying that saving is…
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A world of debt – where are the risks?
Private debt has been the main source of rising debt to GDP ratios since 2008 Advanced economies have led the trend Emerging market…
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Chapter 2: Laws That Make Robbery Legal.
A law can be anything from an attempt to establish justice on earth to a device for robbery and murder.[1] Nazi race law…
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The Dangers of Negative Interest Rates and a Cashless Economy
The recent gyrations in the stock market and the uncertainties surrounding American trade policies with China and other parts of the world have raised…
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CHAPTER ONE: The Money Supply: How it Came to be Created by Banks.
The most important fact in economics today goes unmentioned by most economists and bankers: money is created as debt from banks, and it…
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Benn Steil: Trump’s Tariffs Are Killing American Steel
“Our Steel Industry is the talk of the World,” President Trump tweeted in September. “It has been given new life, and is thriving.” Yet nearly…
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The Arrival Of The Credit Crisis
Those of us who closely follow the credit cycle should not be surprised by the current slide in equity markets. It was going to…
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Two prophetic 19th century anti-socialist satires
The Marxist Left in the Labour Party and elsewhere always embraces with naïve enthusiasm new revolutionary socialist regimes, most recently the one in Venezuela,…
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Latest Articles on Economics
Chapter 3: How Money Works Today: A Summary.
This chapter summarises how money works today. For convenience’s sake, there will be some repetition of material covered elsewhere. Founded on debt rented…
Sustainable government debt – an old idea refreshed
New research from the Peterson Institute suggests bond yields may fall once more Demographic forces and unfunded state liabilities point to an inevitable…
Outrageous fortune
“Isn’t it funny when you walk into an investment firm and you see all of the financial advisers watching CNBC ? That gives me…
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Chapter 2: Laws That Make Robbery Legal.
A law can be anything from an attempt to establish justice on earth to a device for robbery and murder.[1] Nazi race law…
CHAPTER ONE: The Money Supply: How it Came to be Created by Banks.
The most important fact in economics today goes unmentioned by most economists and bankers: money is created as debt from banks, and it…
Republish of Ivo’s Book “Bank Robbery” with Updates
BANK ROBBERY by Ivo Mosley. The way we create money, and how it damages the world. INTRO: WHY I WROTE THIS BOOK Introduction. Why…
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