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The Fed Is Planning Another Ultralong Period of Ultralow Rates
Jerome Powell fielded questions from reporters Wednesday, and he made it clear that the Fed is a long, long way from abandoning its current…
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Keynesian ideas can only make things worse
In the New York Times on September 8, 2020, Paul Krugman suggested that “The CARES Act, enacted in March, gave the unemployed an extra…
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Inflation and Marxism
“Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalist System was to debauch its currency….Lenin was certainly right. There…
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America’s Fiscal Follies are Dangerously in the Red
The Congressional Budget Office has recently issued a federal “Budget Outlook Update” for the next ten years in the context of the government’s fiscal condition in…
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Why trade balance is not the essence of currency exchange rate determination
In July this year the US trade balance stood at a deficit of $63.6 billion against a deficit of $51 billion in July…
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Trump’s “American Greatness” Also Political Paternalism
Mind your own business. Every one of us has thought or said words to this effect when others have told us how to live…
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Step-change at the Fed – Reaching for the stars
The Federal Reserve has changed the emphasis of their dual mandate Inflation targeting will become more flexible in the long-run Full employment has…
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UNIDOS HACIA EL FUTURO
“The markets are the product of 1999 & 2007 hooking up for a one night stand.” Tweet by Danielle DiMartino Booth (@DiMartinoBooth), 25th August…
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Book Review: The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People’s Economy
This article originally appeared in luckbox magazine, July 2020. In January, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its Budget and Economic outlook for 2020…
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An interesting animation on Rothbard’s theory of the Great Depression
This is well worth watching and nicely animates the analysis in Rothbard’s classic “America’s Great Depression”.
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The Social and Economic Side Effects of Negative Interest Rates
Our world is currently suffering from acute schizophrenia. Banks are pushing impact and sustainable investing like crazy, companies are subordinating their production sites and…
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Is laboratory in economics possible?
In the natural sciences, a laboratory experiment can isolate various elements and their movements. There is no equivalent in the discipline of economics….
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The Failures of the ‘War on Drugs’
I would like to congratulate drugs… for winning the war on drugs. Ever since its declaration by Richard Nixon in 1971, a vicious cycle…
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Cut in government outlays is the true tax cut
We suggest that projects that government undertakes can be classified as wealth squandering. The fact that the private sector does not undertake these projects…
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Latest Articles on Economics
The Fed Is Planning Another Ultralong Period of Ultralow Rates
Jerome Powell fielded questions from reporters Wednesday, and he made it clear that the Fed is a long, long way from abandoning its current…
Keynesian ideas can only make things worse
In the New York Times on September 8, 2020, Paul Krugman suggested that “The CARES Act, enacted in March, gave the unemployed an extra…
Inflation and Marxism
“Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalist System was to debauch its currency….Lenin was certainly right. There…
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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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