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“America has what’s known as fiat currency. We now trust in the fallible humanity occupying the Fed and Treasury. Fiat currency has opened the door to any manner of mischief. As John Locke warned, America has left herself exposed to “the inconstant, un …
READ MORE“The International Monetary Fund issued a report Thursday on a possible replacement for the dollar as the world’s reserve currency The IMF said Special Drawing Rights, or SDRs, could help stabilize the global financial system.SDRs represent potential c …
READ MORE“Of all the blunders in American history, perhaps the greatest was the decision to put control of money and banking in the hands of a cabal of big bankers operating under the highfalutin title “Federal Reserve System.” Unfortunately, few among us know …
READ MORE“Don Boudreaux of George Mason University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts on some of the common misunderstandings people have about prices, money, inflation and deflation. They discuss what is harmful about inflation and deflation, the importance …
READ MORE“On Saturday, Allan Meltzer made the statement that “Inflation is coming.” Like the 1970s, we are in for another bout of high unemployment and inflation, which “flummoxed” the Federal Reserve’s policy committee and created a situation in which ”inflati …
READ MORE“The Federal Reserve should start raising interest rates now in order to head off inflation later, Rep. Paul Ryan told CNBC. Speaking a day before Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke is scheduled to visit Capitol Hill for a congressional hearing on monetary poli …
READ MORE“The rise in Kansas agricultural land prices appears to be accelerating in response to the incredible jump in the price of many agricultural products since mid-2010. A recent survey by Farmers National Co., a national brokerage for farm and ranch land, …
READ MORE“In the 1970s, despite rising inflation, members of the Federal Reserve’s policy committee repeatedly chose to lower interest rates to reduce unemployment. Their Phillips Curve models, which charted an inverse relationship between unemployment and infl …
READ MORE“The U.S. bond market has begun sending a message that inflation risks are rising and the Federal Reserve may be too slow to act, potentially marking a significant turning point in the economic recovery. In the past week, Treasury-bond yields have jump …
READ MORE“Philadelphia Fed President Charles Plosser gave a major speech on Monday at the Central Bank of Chile. In the polite language of central bankers, the speech constitutes a systematic criticism of not only current Fed policy but of the Fed’s entire resp …
READ MORE“Millions of families have fallen on hard times not because of our ideals of free enterprise — but because our leaders failed to live up to those ideals; because of poor decisions made in Washington and Wall Street that caused a financial crisis, squan …
READ MORE“On January 25, 2011 Jim Agresti and Steve Cardone interviewed eminent economist and global finance specialist Dr. Judy Shelton about the importance of sound money. Dr. Shelton is Co-Director of the Sound Money Project at the Atlas Economic Research Fo …
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