Why the free market is the best defence against the money multiplier
Some commentators are of the view that the present monetary framework is instrumental for the emergence of the so-called money multiplier. Consider the case…
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Doug Casey: Unsound Banking: Why Most of the World’s Banks Are Headed for Collapse
Source: Most of the World’s Banks – LewRockwell.com You’re likely thinking that a discussion of “sound banking” will be a bit boring. Well, banking…
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Exclusive Interview with Bernard Lietaer on Complementary Currencies
Bernard Lietaer is an expert in innovative monetary systems. While at the Central Bank in Belgium he co-designed and implemented the ECU, the convergence mechanism …
Read MoreMoney Creation and Society Debate in Full
[Editor’s Note: The “Money Creation and Society” debate, which took place in the UK Parliament on Thursday the 20th November 2014, is shown below…
Read MoreAustrians, Fractional Reserves, and the Money Multiplier
[Editor’s note: this article, by Robert Batemarco, first appeared at Mises.org] John Tamny recently wrote a piece at Forbes titled, “The Closing of the Austrian…
Read MoreHas Fractional-Reserve Banking Really Passed the Market Test?
[Editor’s note: the following piece was originally published by World Dollar at zerohedge.com] In 2003, Jörg Guido Hülsmann, a senior fellow of the Mises Institute, published…
Read MoreMoney demand and banking – some challenges for the “Free Bankers”
Within the Austrian School of Economics there has long been disagreement and therefore occasionally fierce debate about the nature and consequences of fractional-reserve banking,…
Read MoreAll power to the state! – money madness at the IMF
You cannot escape an all-pervasive sense of crisis these days. Impending doom does not only announce itself in actual events but also via the…
Read MoreIn defence of the euro: an Austrian perspective
With a Critique of the Errors of the ECB and the Interventionism of Brussels 1. Introduction: The Ideal Monetary System Theorists of the Austrian…
Read MoreValueWalk interviews Detlev Schlichter
Reproduced by kind permission of Jacob Wolinsky at ValueWalk.com Can you tell us a little bit about your background? I studied economics in my…
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