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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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Do banks require savings to accommodate demand for lending?
There is an emerging view held by many commentators that it is banks and not the central bank that are key for the expansion…
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The Ghost of Failed Banks Returns
Last week’s failure in the US repo market might have had something to do with Deutsche Bank’s disposal of its prime brokerage to BNP,…
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Price Controls Attack the Freedom of Speech
We increasingly live in a new “dark age” of economic ignorance, and even stupidity. Few things exemplify this trend as much as the call for price…
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How fractional reserve banking contributes to increases in money supply
Some commentators consider fractional reserve banking as a major vehicle for the expansion in the money supply growth rate. What is the nature…
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Treascomm: Steve Baker, Mark Carney and the Future of the Monetary System
How Is Negative Interest Possible?
Germany has recently joined Switzerland in the dubious All Negative Club. The interest rate on every government bond, from short to 30 years, is…
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Can boom-bust cycles emerge in a free market economy where gold is money?
Following the Austrian Business Cycle Theory (ABCT), the boom-bust cycle emerges in response to a deviation in the market interest rate from the…
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Friends of Freedom, Do Not Despair
riends of freedom can easily become despondent when they look at what appear to be the ideological and political trends that fill the media…
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The shape of the yield curve and the state of the economy
On Wednesday August 14 2019, participants in financial markets were shocked by the news that the differential between the yield on the 10-year…
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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…
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…
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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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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