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Can’t Argue With a Confident Man
CAN’T ARGUE WITH A CONFIDENT MAN “I can say therefore with confidence – and without any complacency – that we will secure the return of inflation to 2% without undue delay, because we are currently deploying tools that we believe will achieve this, and because we can, in any case, deploy our tools further if […]
How Money Disappears in a Fractional-Reserve Money System
HOW MONEY DISAPPEARS IN A FRACTIONAL-RESERVE MONEY SYSTEM Most experts are of the view that the massive monetary pumping by the US central bank during the 2008 financial crisis saved the US and the world from another Great Depression. On this the Federal Reserve Chairman at the time Ben Bernanke is considered the man that […]
Introduction: Bank-Money
Introduction: Bank-Money ‘BANK ROBBERY’ is not a book about how to rob a bank: it’s about how banks rob us. The title sounds a bit sensationalist: perhaps people think it’s not meant to be taken too seriously. Banks don’t actually rob us, surely: they provide a service – even if they do charge too much, and behave […]
Money Supply Versus Money Demand
Money Supply Versus Money Demand According to popular thinking not every increase in the supply of money will have an effect on economic activity. For instance, if an increase in supply is matched by a corresponding increase in the demand for money then there won’t be any effect on the economy. The increase in the […]
Seek and Ye Shall Find
Seek and Ye Shall Find A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.” – Max Lucado. So. Farewell then Jim Slater, who died earlier this month. We met Mr. Slater only once, at an investment conference at the height of the financial crisis in 2008. Just before going on […]
Advice to the Prime Minister/President
Advice to the Prime Minister/President Your country faces a stagnating economy. Let us assume your Prime Minister (or President if that is who holds the executive power) seeks advice from two imaginary economists. PM: You two economists have different views on what our economic policy should be. What is your advice? FIRST ECONOMIST (Austrian school): Prime Minister, the […]
How Do People Destroy Their Capital?
How Do People Destroy Their Capital? I have written previously about the interest rate, which is falling under the planning of the Federal Reserve. The flip side of falling interest rates is the rising price of bonds. Bonds are in an endless, ferocious bull market. Why do I call it ferocious? Perhaps voracious is a better word, […]
The Declining Interest Rate Cap
The Declining Interest Rate Cap Believe it or not, one of the topics in economics that confuses macroeconomists is the actual role of interest rates. For the most part they just assume that an interest rate is the cost of money, the price of money, or even the transfer of the fruits of production from […]
Interview With Lord Turner on Monetary Reform
Interview With Lord Turner on Monetary Reform Max Rangeley: The cover of your book is adorned with the image of Faust and Mephistopheles. In Goethe’s Faust, the Emperor is granted the right to create money ex nihilo, whereas we currently have this Faustian pact with the banks, so before we get into the technocratic, economic […]
What’s Different About Monetary Policy?
What’s Different About Monetary Policy? Many people agree that it’s important to move to a free market in money (i.e. the gold standard). They also say that it’s just as important to fight bad taxes and regulation. In their view, government interference in the economy is like friction in a car. The more friction you […]
War, Big Government, and Lost Freedom
War, Big Government, and Lost Freedom We are currently marking the hundredth anniversary of the fighting of the First World War. For four years between the summer of 1914 and November 11, 1918, the major world powers were in mortal combat with each other. The conflict radically changed the world. It overthrew the pre-1914 era […]
The Fed Can’t Raise Rates, But Must Pretend It Will
The Fed Can’t Raise Rates, But Must Pretend It Will Waiting for Godot is a play written by the Irish novelist Samuel B. Beckett in the late 1940s in which two characters, Vladimir and Estragon, keep waiting endlessly and in vain for the coming of someone named Godot. The storyline bears some resemblance to the Federal […]
Liam Fox’s Speech to the IEA on Honest Money
Liam Fox’s Speech to the IEA on Honest Money Dr Fox gave his speech on honest money to the IEA last week. The video can also be viewed here: http://www.iea.org.uk/multimedia/video/rt-hon-liam-fox-on-honest-money It is almost universally accepted that the first duty of government is the protection of its citizens. As a former Secretary of State for Defence I […]
Jeffrey Snider: Kuroda’s Rebuke Came Awfully Swift
Jeffrey Snider: Kuroda’s Rebuke Came Awfully Swift There must be a universal speech template included in the monetary textbook that is shared among the various central banks. On September 28, 2015, Haruhiko Kuroda, Governor of the Bank of Japan, delivered a speech that wasn’t just similar to the press conference Janet Yellen had endured only a week […]
The Civilisation of Capitalism
The Civilisation of Capitalism This piece was written for The Cobden Centre by Vishal Wilde. Vishal Wilde is a finalist studying for a BSc (Hons) in Philosophy, Politics & Economics (Economics major) at the University of Warwick. He wishes to spend his life fighting for and defending freedom. He is a Freelance Journalist (writing, most recently, […]
