Did Bernanke prevent another Great Depression?
byIn a lecture given at the George Washington University on March 27, 2012 the Chairman of the Fed said that the US central bank’s…
Federal Reserve
FEDging the figures
byBoth the US Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank are now offering limitless quantities of new money – the ECB to support the…
Heckle sketching: why I paint instead of innovate
byI am an artist and serial entrepreneur, and I, like many, have been pillaged and plundered by the United States government. Heckle Sketch is…
Big Trouble in Little China
byDespite the general relief which greeted the release of China’s GDP data for the third quarter, as well as the still resilient industrial production…
Gingrich adopts gold standard model
byAmerican Principles Project: Washington, D.C.–Republican presidential candidate and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich called for “hard money with a very limited Federal Reserve” at…
No Mt Rushmore for today’s interventionists
bySince the Great Financial Crisis started (in truth, since well before), we have unwaveringly maintained three main tenets in relation to how one should…
The Fed is very nearly bust
byIn his latest article for ConservativeHome, Steve Baker considers the viability of America’s central bank: A review of the US Federal Reserve’s own document:…
Phases of the crisis – are we approaching the endgame?
byPhase 1: Greenspan, the arch money crank The Greenspan “put”, and the collective adoption by most central bankers of low interest rates after the…
Brazil
byWith his history in the transfer market there is no guarantee that Carlos Tevez won’t still end up at Brazilian side Corinthians. But even…
Bernanke’s blind side
byThe world financial system is skating on thin ice, and that ice can crack at any moment. The instabilities of the global paper money…