The False Promises Of Two Percent Price Inflation
byA specter is haunting the world, the specter of two percent inflationism. Whether pronounced by the U.S. Federal Reserve or the European Central Bank,…
Banking
The Case For Monetary Freedom And Free Banking
byThere has been no greater threat to life, liberty, and property throughout the ages than government. Even the most violent and brutal private individuals…
Silly Conspiracy Theory: The Rothschilds control the world
by“Give me control of a Nation’s money supply, and I care not who makes its laws.” This quote frequently is attributed by conspiracy theorists…
Bank gearing in the Eurozone
byAccording to the ECB’s Bank Lending Survey for October banks eased their credit standards in the last quarter, while their risk perceptions increased. This…
Antisemitism and Banking
by[Editor’s Note: this piece, by Ivo Mosley, first appeared at http://defendinghistory.com/antisemitism-banking/69351] A good deal of today’s anti-Semitism rests upon the fantasy that ‘the Jews’…
A market reset due
byRecent evidence points increasingly towards global economic contraction. Parts of the Eurozone are in great difficulty, and only last weekend S&P the rating agency…
Math Gone Mad: Regulatory Risk Modeling by the Federal Reserve
byThe U.S. financial system faces a major, growing, and much under-appreciated threat from the Federal Reserve’s risk modeling agenda—the “Fed stress tests.” These were…
Weak Labour Markets and Repo Market Disruptions
byCentral Banking Low interest rates contribute to weak labour markets In the latter part of August, the cream of the world’s central bankers convened…
Austrians, Fractional Reserves, and the Money Multiplier
by[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…
Has Fractional-Reserve Banking Really Passed the Market Test?
by[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…