Articles by Tom Duncan
“The State and 100 Percent Reserve Banking” – Selgin
“Free bankers have been fighting a war on two fronts. On one they face champions of central banking and managed money. On the other they struggle against advocates of 100-percent reserve banking. Although the second front is a lot smaller than the firs …
“A Note on the Machiavellian Origins of Central Banking in America” – QJAE
“In The Mystery of Banking, Murray Rothbard explained how the origins of central banking in the U.S. were rooted in a lobbying effort by Robert Morris and other “nationalists” to create a bank modeled after the Bank of England that would subsidize thei …
“Defense Spending No Longer ‘Sacred Cow’ to Republicans Searching for Cuts” – Bloomberg
“As the House Budget Committee worked on a Republican plan to cut more than $6 trillion of government spending over a decade, the panel’s senior Democrat proposed a symbolic amendment saying national security costs should be included in any responsible …
“Barney Frank’s Latest Bad Idea” – WSJ
“Mr. Frank’s bill is simple and remarkably short by Washington standards: two pages. It would strike the language in Section 12A of the Federal Reserve Act that provides for voting membership by the New York Fed and rotating voting membership by the ot …
“Hoenig Urges Fed to Raise Interest Rates to Encourage Saving” – Bloomberg
“Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City President Thomas Hoenig, the central bank’s longest-serving policy maker, said the U.S. needs to raise interest rates to encourage individuals to save and avoid future asset bubbles. Hoenig, who doesn’t vote on mone …
“Measuring Inflation: The Core is Rotten” – Bullard
“Controlling overall inflation is a goal of monetary policy. Measures of overall, or headline, inflation attempt to include changes in the prices paid for a wide variety of goods—that is, what households actually have to pay for their daily purchases. …
“Gold Bubble, Debt Bubble, or Both?” – Seeking Alpha
“To begin, the national debt has provoked concern over the stability of US debt. Last month Standard and Poor’s revised its sovereign credit rating of the U.S. in the long-term from stable to negative. Last week the US reached its debt limit, which, ju …
“Ben Bernanke Loses Control of the Fed”
“The Fed is blaming the earthquake in Japan for disrupting first quarter global growth, plus droughts and other natural disasters which didn’t help. The problem for Bernanke and his allies on the Fed is that hardly anyone is buying this argument. Most …
“The Return of Stagflation” – WSJ
“‘Stagflation” is an ugly word for an ugly situation: persistent high inflation combined with high unemployment and stagnant demand in a country’s economy. The term was coined by British politician Iain Mcleod in a speech to Parliament in 1965. We have …
“Who’s Gonna Bail Out the Fed?” – Forbes
“In ordinary times it would be ignorant to ask, “Who’s going to bail out the Fed?” — but then again these aren’t ordinary times. Solvency of the Federal Reserve Bank shouldn’t be an issue because it carries the full faith and credit of the United State …
