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The Economic Standard’s write up on my speech at the Austrian central bank.
By Erik Sass, TES Editor-in-Chief https://theeconomicstandard.com/will-blockchain-undermine-central-bank-control-or-amplify-it/ Since the launch of Bitcoin in 2009 cryptocurrencies have proliferated, powered by blockchain technology using distributed computing…
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It’s Coming Home this November! Event in Austrian central bank in Vienna
FinTech Companies; little innovation and no reform of banking
New entrants into every aspect of banking were encouraged by two recent regulatory developments: the Open Banking initiative and the ‘sandboxing’ exemptions from regulations….
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From Zero Hedge ::: Lagarde – “We Should Be Happier To Have A Job Than To Have Savings”
Any hopes that the replacement of Mario Draghi, who on Halloween left the ECB more polarized than ever, as the core European nations revolted…
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The Austrian School Warned, the ECB Didn’t Listen
by Alvaro Martin Looking at the current situation, one can easily perceive that our economic environment is not in the best condition. The whole…
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100% Banking and Its Advocates: A Brief History
By Edward W. Fuller The 100% reserve plan is often considered a radical proposal for monetary reform. This article discusses the history of 100% banking…
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Fragility – what the US money-market squeeze means for the future
Last month’s squeeze in overnight domestic US$ funding rattled markets The Fed responded rapidly but the problem has been growing for some time…
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FinTech Companies; little innovation and no reform of banking
New entrants into every aspect of banking were encouraged by two recent regulatory developments: the Open Banking initiative and the ‘sandboxing’ exemptions from regulations….
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Collectivist Revivalism and the New Attack on Liberty
America and some other parts of the world are facing a “revivalist” movement, but rather than being a religious revival, it is an ideological…
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Benn Steil: Housing Market Points to Recession By Election Day
Looking back at the years preceding the 2008 financial crisis, a critical warning sign was the surging gap between the growth in home prices…
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Progressivism Is An Imposter
“What we’ve got here is a failure to communicate.” This became an often-repeated popular line after its use in the 1967 movie Cool Hand Luke….
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A Wealth Tax Consumes Capital
It seems one cannot make a name for one’s self on the Left, unless one has a proposal to tax wealth. Academics like Tomas…
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How the GDP framework creates the illusion that by means of money pumping the central bank can grow an economy
In response to a weakening in the yearly growth rate of key economic indicators such as industrial production and real gross domestic product…
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The Disaster of Negative Interest Policy
Those who had hoped that things could not get worse with the monetary policy of the European Central Bank (ECB) have been proven wrong….
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It’s Coming Home this November! Event in Austrian central bank in Vienna
This will be a good one. See more here: http://austrianconference.org/
FinTech Companies; little innovation and no reform of banking
New entrants into every aspect of banking were encouraged by two recent regulatory developments: the Open Banking initiative and the ‘sandboxing’ exemptions from regulations….
From Zero Hedge ::: Lagarde – “We Should Be Happier To Have A Job Than To Have Savings”
Any hopes that the replacement of Mario Draghi, who on Halloween left the ECB more polarized than ever, as the core European nations revolted…
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Treascomm: Steve Baker, Mark Carney and the Future of the Monetary System
Mises on 100-Percent Reserve Banking
By Edward W. Fuller Economists debate whether Ludwig von Mises advocated free banking or 100 percent reserve banking. This debate is significant. Mises states, “the…
The World Is Growing Tired of Government-Controlled Fiat Currencies
Source: https://mises.org/wire/world-growing-tired-government-controlled-fiat-currencies Listen to the Audio Mises Wire version of this article. Here in the U.S. the financial markets are focusing on Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s herky-jerky monetary…
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