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“The Fed’s policy statement on Wednesday afternoon said emphatically what we have discussed here endlessly: Nothing is going to stop these guys from completing their mission. Nothing. Nunca, nada, niete. The guvs said neither the most recent pick-up in …
READ MORE“An odd thing occurred this week. Britain’s national debt jumped by £1.3 trillion, virtually 100% of GDP, and hardly anyone paid attention. The bad news was crowded out by the surprise 0.5% drop in national output in the last quarter of 2010. There was …
READ MORE“U.S. officials must act quickly to control government deficits or face slower growth and even more difficult choices in the future, the International Monetary Fund said Thursday in a report criticizing the tepid U.S. response to its rising public debt …
READ MORE“Goodness, the market is jittery. The moment the latest economic growth figures were announced yesterday morning, sterling fell 1.25 per cent against the euro and one per cent against the dollar within minutes. Obviously, no-one was expecting that GDP …
READ MORE“The power of a few large-cap companies to sway stock market sentiment is great. As recent corporate events illustrate, not only does good earnings news move the market, but, increasingly, dividend news is moving share prices. This is big and it’s a si …
READ MOREBeware of President Obama’s call for a doubling of U.S. exports over the next five years as a way to reduce the unemployment rate. The obvious quick route to export success for any nation is to depreciate its currency. Dollar depreciation is already be …
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 …
READ MOREOver at Coordination Problem, Steve Horwitz discusses his exchange with Gauti Eggertsson in regards to Eggertsson’s claim that Roosevelt’s policies led the U.S. out of the Great Depression. Horwitz disagrees with this view of history. It is an interest …
READ MORE“Mr. Trichet argues that budget discipline would help growth in Europe more than renewed stimulus, and called on the euro zone’s 17 member countries to strengthen “surveillance” of each other’s fiscal policies. In Europe, budget discipline benefits gro …
READ MORE“Taylor’s followers include the new GOP House leadership, the chairmen of key House committees, Presidential hopefuls, conservative thinkers, and others suspicious of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s stimulative monetary policy and perceived all …
READ MORE“This morning, the yield on the 90-day U.S. T-bills is up to 0.155%. Not a big deal, but let’s look at it a little closer. When the credit crisis arrived in 2008, there was a run to the safety of short-term U.S. Treasuries, which sent down yields sharp …
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