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“Resentment in emerging markets about the global spillover effects of easier U.S. monetary policy is likely to hang over next week’s summit of the Group of 20 leading economies in Seoul. “What will happen with another round of quantitative easing by th …
READ MORE“Americans rely on financial services to help meet their needs: for retirement, education, homeownership and indeed every aspect of their lives… Will the new rules ensure that the costs of credit remain accessible for businesses and individuals to m …
READ MORE“Despite the overwhelming evidence that markets perform best when left alone by the government, it is still virtually taken for granted that one consumer product should be completely controlled by every government in the world. One product, so ubiquito …
READ MORE“Every Friday evening a few more banks are closed — seized by the various state banking regulators and handed over to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) for liquidation. This all happens rather quietly, barely making the news. We’re told …
READ MORE“It seems certain, however, that we shall merely make matters worse if we aim at curing the deflationary symptoms and, at the same time (by the erection of trade barriers and other forms of state intervention) do our best to increase rather than to dec …
READ MORE“The third-highest inflation rate in the world is making investors less confident in Argentina’s ability to keep up economic growth and repay debt beginning in 2012, credit default swaps show. Five-year contracts that protect investors against a defaul …
READ MORE“When money is created at a faster rate than real economic growth, the result is inflation. Yet so far this year, China’s official statistics show consumer inflation at barely over 3 percent. Those figures have many economists scratching their heads, w …
READ MORE“The threat of politicization hangs over the Federal Reserve Board like the Sword of Damocles. It’s Capitol Hill’s response to the Fed’s proliferation of new programs to unglue credit markets. The Fed’s innovations threaten to create enough acronyms to …
READ MORE“In a free market economy from which fiduciary media are excluded, economic progress will be limited, perhaps severely, by the high cost and correspondingly limited supply of small-denomination money—money that is needed to accomplish retail and other …
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by Jerry O’Driscoll The following is a book review from the Cato Journal, Vol. 30, No. 3 (Fall 2010). Jimmy Stewart Is Dead: Ending the World’s Ongoing Financial Plague with Limited Purpose Banking Laurence J. Kotlikoff (Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & …
READ MOREI thought that I would offer a run-through of what the government and the Fed have done to help us out during our troubled economic times. It is, of course, not a complete list, but it may be interesting to think about when you ask yourself why the lat …
READ MORE“At the moment, Republican leaders and policy elites are advancing exclusively fiscal solutions that address only the government response to the economic crisis and not the crisis itself. Fiscal deficits did not create the crisis, and reducing deficits …
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