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Tyler Watts

at Sound Money Project

Articles from Tyler Watts

What Happens when Uncle Sam’s Sugar Daddy Runs out of Canes?

Wednesday, February 13th, 2013

The Wall Street Journal’s Real Time Economics Blog

The Mutual Mower Association

Monday, August 6th, 2012

The Essence of Central Banking

Friday, July 6th, 2012

by Tyler Watts “In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is.” –Yogi Berra

"I am not an Economist..."

Friday, June 1st, 2012

"...nor am I a doctor. But here is a critique of a school of economic thought, along with an appendectomy!"

Cracks in the Fiscal Dam

Thursday, March 22nd, 2012

The Euro (Double) Standard

Monday, February 20th, 2012

The received wisdom in economic history places much of the blame for the Great Depression squarely on the shoulders of the gold standard.

Golden Paperweights, and Other Investments

Friday, February 10th, 2012

Why gold isn't money, steak isn't food, and you're not really reading this...

Man Shot and Killed. Bullet Arrested.

Tuesday, January 31st, 2012

Yahoo Finance writer Aaron Task told to carry water for the Fed, but instead writes an obfuscating apologia for inflationist institution.

America's Dirty Laundering

Thursday, January 26th, 2012

No matter how many times they clean it, the fresh ink stains just won't go away.

Is Deleveraging "Bad for the Economy"?

Monday, December 19th, 2011

A while back there was a story in the Wall Street Journal (“America’s Debt Cutting Hampers Growth,” Oct. 22) about deleveraging in the U.S. economy.

What the Price of Gold Means

Monday, December 19th, 2011

It’s amazing how so many people don’t get gold. It’s only been 40 years since the dollar was completely severed from it’s once proud golden heritage, yet most finance and econ people are wont to consider gold just another commodity—and a not very “useful” one at that.

Choose Austerity, Before It Chooses You

Thursday, December 15th, 2011

Strange and amazing things happen when sovereign debt levels get out of hand.

The Gutenberg Solution

Monday, December 5th, 2011

The European Monetary Union is evolving like a slow-motion train-wreck these days.

The Irrelevant Dramatics of the Super Committee

Friday, December 2nd, 2011

“Lord, make me chaste, but not yet.”-St. Augustine

The "Inflation Moralist" View

Tuesday, November 15th, 2011

I’m trying to wrap my brain around the recent wave of ‘respectable’ economists coming out in favor of higher inflation.

The US Economy is Fedlocked

Monday, November 14th, 2011

By all accounts in the news, the FOMC basically threw up its hands at its meeting this week, deciding it can't do anything constructive to improve economic conditions.

The Fed as Witchdoctor

Tuesday, November 1st, 2011

Although very few in the mainstream media are paying much attention, there’s growing chatter in sound-money circles about the ongoing phenomenon of negative real interest rates.

The Incredible Morphing Fed

Sunday, October 30th, 2011

Student blogger Andrew Mack points out that the Fed was a creature of the "progressive" ethos of the early 20th century—i.e.

America’s Love/Hate Relationship with Sound Money

Friday, October 28th, 2011

Having been doing research for a paper on credit expansion and inflation in the U.S. in the 1790’s, I’ve been looking at mortgage documents from that era. Almost all of them feature what we might call a “sound money clause” i.e. they are explicitly payable in “gold or silver coin.”

Nuts to Higher Inflation

Friday, October 21st, 2011

The chorus of voices calling for higher inflation is growing. Joining “respectable” mainstream economists like Harvard's Greg Mankiw and Ken Rogoff is Rex Nutting at Marketwatch.

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