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“Every Friday evening a few more banks are closed — seized by the various state banking regulators and handed over to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) for liquidation. This all happens rather quietly, barely making the news. We’re told …
READ MORE“It seems certain, however, that we shall merely make matters worse if we aim at curing the deflationary symptoms and, at the same time (by the erection of trade barriers and other forms of state intervention) do our best to increase rather than to dec …
READ MOREIn The Constitution of Liberty, F.A. Hayek advised: “All those who wish to stop the drift toward increasing government control should concentrate their effort on monetary policy”. Sound Money will have a special panel during Atlas’s upcoming Liberty Fo …
READ MORE“The third-highest inflation rate in the world is making investors less confident in Argentina’s ability to keep up economic growth and repay debt beginning in 2012, credit default swaps show. Five-year contracts that protect investors against a defaul …
READ MORE“The Federal Reserve may purchase $2 trillion of assets to stimulate the U.S. economy and start by announcing a fresh round of monetary easing on Nov. 3, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. said. “We expect an announcement of $500 billion or perhaps slightly more …
READ MORE“Oil prices rose to near $81 a barrel Friday in Asia, rebounding slightly from the previous session’s steep drop, as traders mull the possible effects of anticipated moves by the U.S. Federal Reserve to spur economic growth.” Read more. “Oil rises to …
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READ MORENorthwood University’s Forum for Citizenship and Enterprise, in partnership with the Atlas Economic Research Foundation, will host a lecture by Northwood University Professor Richard Ebeling on the importance of sound money for a free society. The lect …
READ MORE“When money is created at a faster rate than real economic growth, the result is inflation. Yet so far this year, China’s official statistics show consumer inflation at barely over 3 percent. Those figures have many economists scratching their heads, w …
READ MORE“In order to avoid the global recession that took hold in 2008, China implemented an aggressive stimulus policy. Credit was made plentiful and the inflation machine kept on chugging. The amount of foreign capital attracted to China’s continued growth h …
READ MORE“The dollar weakened against 15 of 16 major peers, losing at least 1.5 percent versus currencies including the Australian dollar and Swedish krona. The U.S. currency has depreciated more than 3 percent versus all 16 major counterparts since the end of …
READ MORE“Hypothetical monetary systems always look better than actual experience. Economists therefore view their responsibility as deciding what characteristics money ought to have, then imposing that money on the public. The same economists presumably would …
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