Chapter 4: Early Days.
byThe situation we are in today has evolved over many centuries. Economists had plenty of time and opportunity to comment – and comment…
Why is savings not about money?
byConventional wisdom says that savings is the amount of money left after monetary income was used for consumer outlays, implying that saving is…
A world of debt – where are the risks?
byPrivate debt has been the main source of rising debt to GDP ratios since 2008 Advanced economies have led the trend Emerging market…
Chapter 2: Laws That Make Robbery Legal.
byA law can be anything from an attempt to establish justice on earth to a device for robbery and murder.[1] Nazi race law…
The Dangers of Negative Interest Rates and a Cashless Economy
byThe recent gyrations in the stock market and the uncertainties surrounding American trade policies with China and other parts of the world have raised…
CHAPTER ONE: The Money Supply: How it Came to be Created by Banks.
byThe most important fact in economics today goes unmentioned by most economists and bankers: money is created as debt from banks, and it…
Benn Steil: Trump’s Tariffs Are Killing American Steel
by“Our Steel Industry is the talk of the World,” President Trump tweeted in September. “It has been given new life, and is thriving.” Yet nearly…
The Arrival Of The Credit Crisis
byThose of us who closely follow the credit cycle should not be surprised by the current slide in equity markets. It was going to…
Two prophetic 19th century anti-socialist satires
byThe Marxist Left in the Labour Party and elsewhere always embraces with naïve enthusiasm new revolutionary socialist regimes, most recently the one in Venezuela,…
Republish of Ivo’s Book “Bank Robbery” with Updates
byBANK ROBBERY by Ivo Mosley. The way we create money, and how it damages the world. INTRO: WHY I WROTE THIS BOOK Introduction. Why…