The Rise And Fall And Rise And Fall Of King Dollar, Part 2
byAs stated in the preceding column, here, eminent labor economist Jared Bernstein recently called, in the New York Times, for the dethroning of “King…
Money
The Rise And Fall And Rise And Fall Of King Dollar, Part 1
byThe Wall Street Journal, recently, in The Return of the Greenback, observed that “the resurgent dollar has logged its longest winning streak in 17…
Does low US price inflation provide room for a more aggressive Fed?
byThe US Federal Reserve can keep stimulating the US economy because inflation is posing little threat, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis President Kocherlakota said….
Valuing gold and turkey-farming
byToday’s financial markets are built on the sand of unsound currencies. Consequently brokers, banks and investors are wedded to monetary inflation and have lost…
End the Fed’s War on Paychecks
byThe Democratic Party has made “income inequality” a signature issue for the 2014 (and, presumably, 2016) election cycle. Democrats, en masse, shout “J’accuse!” at Republicans. …
The Taylor Rule Won’t Save Us
by[Editor’s Note: This article, by Mateusz Machaj, first appeared at mises.org] Various criticisms have been raised against the Fed, not only from the side…
The end of tapering and government funding
byLast year markets behaved nervously on rumours that QE3 would be tapered; this year we have lived with the fact. It turned out that…
Market expectations and long-term US interest rates
byAfter closing at 3.03% in December 2013 the yield on the 10-year US T-Note has been trending down, closing at 2.34% by August this…
Don’t Believe Government About Price Inflation
by[Editor’s note, this piece, by Richard Ebeling, is from EpicTimes] It is an old adage that there are lies, damn lies and then there are…
Böhm-Bawerk: Austrian Economist Who Said “No” to Big Government
by[Editor’s note: this piece, by Richard M. Ebeling, was originally published at EpicTimes] We live at a time when politicians and bureaucrats only know one…