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…
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”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0SW3BgwL14
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…
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…
Switzerland’s Approach to Giving the Economy a Lifeline
by Henrique Schneider One particularly important lesson to learn from the Covid-19 drama is which political decisions could help companies through the crisis. It…
Why the US Economy Is Stronger Than the Eurozone’s
The United States is showing resiliency and strength compared with other leading economies worldwide. The impact of the covid-19 forced shutdown crisis is lower in the United States…
Why the MSM Hates Judy Shelton
By the Robert Aro at the Mises Institute Imagine if a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors said the following: When governments manipulate exchange rates to…
Next Generation EU” spending plan: Towards strengthening or weakening the EU in the long run
Olympios Raptis // 1 July 2020 While the media, right and left-wing parties and the average newspaper reader celebrate in anticipation of “helicopter money”…
Money Supply Growth in May Again Surges to an All-Time High
Money supply growth surged to another all-time high in May, following April’s all-time high that came in the wake of unprecedented quantitative easing, central…
Corona’s Surprising Productivity Surge
By Henrique Schneider Around the world, productivity growth has been slowing. In developed economies, productivity has risen by less than 1 percent annually for several…