Politics
Economists and pundits mistakenly call the Federal Reserve System’s security holdings a portfolio. It is anything but. Original Article: “The Fed’s Portfolio Is Nonexistent: The...
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As real wages decline and middle-class savings are depleted, the government expands its influence, garnering support from a substantial portion of the populace.
In the spirit of a new Cold War, Matthew Kroenig and Dan Negrea have written a new book, We Win, They Lose: Republican Foreign...
While the US dollar is the world’s “reserve” currency—at least for now—the reckless spending and money creation policies of the US government place the...
Economists and pundits mistakenly call the Federal Reserve System’s security holdings a portfolio. It is anything but. Original Article: “The Fed’s Portfolio Is Nonexistent: The...
Mark Thornton explains the target as another smokescreen that was originally intended to stabilize monetary policy, currencies, and exchange rates, but has become a...
As Murray Rothbard wrote, inflation is not an increase in prices. It is, instead, an increase in the supply of money in circulation. The...
These days, the Fed and Chairman Jerome Powell are claiming the title of “inflation fighters.” The more appropriate moniker should be “inflationists.” Original Article: “Fighting...
With Yale economics professor Yusuke Narita suggesting mass suicide—seppuku—as the answer to Japan’s rapidly aging demographics, Jeff and Bob take a hard look at...