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Freedom Works in Switzerland
by Henrique Schneider In 2018, the Swiss economy grew 2.5 percent. For 2019, the Federal Expert Group for economic forecast expects it to expand…
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Neutral interest rate – the Fed’s impossible goal
It is widely accepted that by means of suitable monetary policies the US central bank can navigate the economy towards a growth path…
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Chapter 7: Secrets, Ignorance and Lies: Money, Credit and Debt.
“The tyranny of fraud is not less oppressive than that of force.” John Taylor of Caroline, Virginia (1814). Our money system relies on…
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How Asset Inflation Will End — This Time
Life after death for asset inflation: this is what happens when “speculative fever” remains high even after monetary inflation has paused. This may well…
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Can expansionary fiscal and monetary policies counter recessions?
When signs of economic weakness emerge, most economics experts are quick to embrace the ideas of John Maynard Keynes. For most economists…
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China in transition – From manufacturer to consumer
China is evolving from a current account surplus to deficit country Increased domestic consumption and dis-saving by an ageing population drives the trend…
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What the shape of the yield spread implies?
A fall in the difference between the yield on the 10-year US T-Bond and the US 3-month Treasury bill into negative territory has…
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In Defence of Free Markets
Why is it that no one defends free markets, and socialism, despite all the evidence of its failures, comes back again and again? Unsurprisingly,…
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Being and Time (and central banks)
People value present goods more highly than future goods. For instance, an apple available today is considered more valuable than the same apple available…
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The problem with Modern Monetary Theory
According to the Modern Money Theory (MMT), money is a thing that the State decides upon. Following the ideas of the German economist, Georg…
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Chapter 6: America, Won and Lost.
After the United States gained its independence from Britain, it became powerful in the world in two very different ways: as an idea,…
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The Global Economy Desperately Needs Freedom
How many bureaucrats are there in the world? The global population currently numbers more than 7.5 billion people. Out of that number it is…
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Changes in government deposits and money supply
The US debt ceiling suspension, signed in February 2018, expires at the beginning of March this year. Some commentators are of the view…
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Capital Flows – is a reckoning nigh?
Borrowing in Euros continues to rise even as the rate of US borrowing slows The BIS has identified an Expansionary Lower Bound for…
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Neutral interest rate – the Fed’s impossible goal
It is widely accepted that by means of suitable monetary policies the US central bank can navigate the economy towards a growth path…
Chapter 7: Secrets, Ignorance and Lies: Money, Credit and Debt.
“The tyranny of fraud is not less oppressive than that of force.” John Taylor of Caroline, Virginia (1814). Our money system relies on…
How Asset Inflation Will End — This Time
Life after death for asset inflation: this is what happens when “speculative fever” remains high even after monetary inflation has paused. This may well…
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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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