For honest money and social progress
[This article, from Peter St. Onge at Mises.org was first published here https://mises.org/library/government-regulation-and-economic-stagnation] One of the more interesting economic debates in the past couple…
“We’re not gonna make it, are we ? People, I mean.” “It is in your nature to destroy yourselves.” “Yeah. Major drag, huh ?”…
Our monetary system is failing, but explaining that isn’t easy. The most popular argument is that the dollar has falling purchasing power and rising…
Progressives are a Faithful lot. They live, and die, by a Creed. Welcome to the Church of State. We saw the religiosity at work…
The first chapter of this book described how private commercial bankers came to provide almost all of the money supply in the West….
[This piece, by Christopher P. Casey, first appeared at mises.org here https://mises.org/library/how-gdp-metrics-distort-our-view-economy] GDP purports to measure economic activity while largely divorcing itself from the quality, profitability,…
When interest rates are zero and it costs a bank to look after your money it becomes an unattractive asset. Banks in some jurisdictions…
“Funny how bonds were labelled “certificates of confiscation” back in the early 1980’s when yields were 14%. What should we call them now ?”…
There is an unwarranted assumption that market prices are always right, and represent “fair value”. In the case of commodities, particularly metals, this is…
Old fallacies never seem to die, they just fad away to reemerge once again later on. One such fallacy is that if there is…