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“This is a story about how an economist and his buddies tricked the people of Brazil into saving the country from rampant inflation. They had a crazy, unlikely plan, and it worked. Twenty years ago, Brazil’s inflation rate hit 80 percent per month. At …
READ MOREFrom our friends at the Mercatus Center: “Although it has yet to make an appearance on the current economic scene, inflation continues to be a ghost that haunts the future of the U.S. economy. The Federal Reserve System has pumped an unprecedented amou …
READ MOREBy Reuven Brenner* Seemingly out of the blue, the U.S. Federal Reserve chairman is hinting at a return to the gold standard. If so, currency markets are in for a shock. Last month in a speech before the Economic Club of New York, Alan Greenspan praise …
READ MORE“What matters is to have an agreed-upon unit of account in terms of which trading partners could price every contractual agreement, preferably having the medium of exchange serve as the unit of account, too. This anchor is missing in the international …
READ MORE“At the moment, Republican leaders and policy elites are advancing exclusively fiscal solutions that address only the government response to the economic crisis and not the crisis itself. Fiscal deficits did not create the crisis, and reducing deficits …
READ MOREWith the expansion of the government’s economic responsibilities over the past three years, there has been growing public concern about the economic role of the state and the level of sovereign and private debt. With this in mind, the Witherspoon Insti …
READ MORE“But if the problem isn’t in the application of the system, but it is the system, then all efforts to reform practice will fail, and fail miserably. This is what we believe the logic of economic argument leads one to conclude about central banking and …
READ MORESound Money at Atlas is happy to announce that Peter Lewin*, will be giving three lectures on “The Austrian Capital Theory and the Business Cycle” at the University of Texas at Dallas. The dates of the lectures are as follows: October 12th, 2:30 p …
READ MORE“Too much money leads first to a boom and then a terrible bust. Re-stimulation continues the process and makes economic imbalances worse over time until finally the whole system begins to collapse and something else emerges. We are in a collapse phase …
READ MOREWalter Williams, a professor of economics for George Mason University, speaks on the deregulation (or lack-thereof) that led to the financial crisis. The original video can be fond on LibertyPen.com.
READ MORE“No monetary system, including gold, is perfect. But the evidence is that the gold standard is a recipe for lower-than-predicted federal interest rates (quelling the coming fiscal crisis); lower corporate bond rates (jobs); and lower mortgage rates (re …
READ MORE“But back to the question of the cause of inflation. Basically when the government increases the money supply faster than the quantity of goods increases we have inflation. Interestingly as the supply of goods increase the money supply has to increase …
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