Topic: International

Central Banking, International, Monetary Policy, Sound Money Project

Tinker Bell Economics in Europe

– June 20, 2012

by Gary North If you have seen the stage version of Peter Pan, you know the scene in which the audience is asked to clap if they want Tinker Bell to live. It’s time. Janet Daley wrote a provocative essay in London’s The Telegraph on the day before the …

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Central Banking, Fiscal Policy, International, Monetary Policy, Sound Money Project

A Call to Arms for Central Banks

– June 19, 2012

How central banks tend to destroy economies and what we can do to stop them.

Central Banking, International, Monetary Policy, Sound Banking, Sound Money Project

The Welfare Kings of Europe

– June 18, 2012

In spite of the fact that 85% of Greeks want to stay in the Eurozone, I was reasonably confident that Greeks would support Syriza to a first-place finish, and elect a new government willing to play chicken with the Germans.

International, Sound Banking, Sound Money Project

Lies, Damn Lies, and Government Statistics

– June 11, 2012

Just counting something as a part of “GDP” doesn’t actually make it a “product.”

Central Banking, International, Monetary Policy, Sound Money Project

Europeans Ambivalent About the Euro

– May 30, 2012

The debt crisis that has ravaged Europe for the best part of three years has exposed a dislike of the single currency but little desire to abandon it, a wide-ranging survey of public opinion found Tuesday.

Central Banking, Currency, Gold Standard, Inflation, International, Monetary Policy, Sound Money, Sound Money Project

Gold and The Central Banks: The Game Theory

– May 24, 2012

“Collectively, the central bankers of the world might agree that they do not want gold to be remonetized. Individually, it is in their interest to defect from this consensus. As the American Century decays, individual motivations tend to become more prominent. You and I are not in a free market – but the central banks are.”

Central Banking, Fiscal Policy, International, Monetary Policy, Sound Money Project

The European Union Is Destroying European Unity

– May 8, 2012

It was said that the E.U.’s existence was justified in the name of preventing the return of nationalism and fascism to European politics. Well, as a result of the austerity terms imposed upon Greece by their European cousins in Brussels and Frankfurt, Greeks just put a full-blown fascist party into Parliament.

Central Banking, Currency, Gold Standard, Inflation, International, Monetary Policy, Sound Banking, Sound Money, Sound Money Project

The US Dollar Vs. Gold

– April 27, 2012

The GFC is falsely named, since it is more accurately described as a global monetary war with the USGovt vigorously defending its franchise in the USDollar for crude oil and trade settlement, and for bank reserves management.

Central Banking, Currency, Gold Standard, Inflation, International, Monetary Policy, Sound Banking, Sound Money, Sound Money Project

Is There No Escape from the Euro?

– April 27, 2012

Is escaping the Eurozone possible?

Inflation, International, Sound Banking, Sound Money Project

Think The US Student Loan Bubble Is Bad? You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet

– April 24, 2012

Note to the Federal Government: Champagne bubbles are good. The bubbles you’ve been giving us? Not so much.

International, Regulation, Sound Money Project

Labor Unrest in Spain

– April 6, 2012

Well, they do still have to honor siesta… The recent manifestations in Spain against a labor reform are just another symptom of the precarious situation in Europe. Even though Spain is not in the same situation as Greece (yet?), it does have a higher …

Central Banking, Inflation, International, Monetary Policy, Sound Banking, Sound Money Project

There Are Two Ways to Fix Monetary Policy: the Fast Way, and the Right Way

– April 4, 2012

…and the government way. The expectations of modest growth in January by the Fed deflated to moderate growth in mid-March. The monetary policy that the Fed and the Treasury have followed have failed to have the desired effects. But that doesn’t stop …