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Money Is a Monopoly Government Will Never Surrender
Money Is a Monopoly Government Will Never Surrender A major intellectual revelation from my youth came from reading Murray Rothbard’s “What Has Government Done to Our Money?” (1963). He includes a passing opinion that private markets are perfectly capable of producing money with no help from government. Under a sweeping monetary reform, private mints could […]
Inflation is Transitory Again
Inflation is Transitory Again Because it has to be in order to fund Bidenomics. As Powell clasps his hands in desperate hope without any evidence to back his hope, the US Treasurer today, like the Treasurer in yesteryear, is giving a solid thumbs-up to his plan, which is already accomplishing everything the Treasury desperately needed. […]
What Are the Odds the Fed Hikes Interest Rates to 8 Percent?
What Are the Odds the Fed Hikes Interest Rates to 8 Percent? I ask the question because the number came up in a recent JP Morgan publication. 8 Percent “Prediction” or “Possibility”? This headline by TFTC caught my eye: JP Morgan Predicts Crushing 8% Interest Rate Spike JP Morgan forecasts interest rates rising to 8%, potentially […]
David Stockman on the $1.3 Trillion Elephant In The Room
David Stockman on the $1.3 Trillion Elephant In The Room These people have to be stopped! We are talking about the nation’s unhinged monetary politburo domiciled in the Eccles Building, of course. It is bad enough that their relentless inflation of financial assets has showered the 1% with untold trillions of windfall gains, but their […]
If Treasury Bonds Hit 5%, You’re Gonna See Some Serious Sh*t
If Treasury Bonds Hit 5%, You’re Gonna See Some Serious Sh*t Almost as if all of us Austrian Economists (read: any carbon based life form using common sense when it comes to finance) live in an echo chamber together, a third expert I respect came out over the last few days and has warned that 5% on […]
The Fed’s Game of “Make Believe” Comes to an End
The Fed’s Game of “Make Believe” Comes to an End It’s barely been a year since the 2023 bank crisis in which several large banks, including Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank, failed. At the time, I wrote that the bank failures weren’t over, and that there would be more. But it’s been quiet for […]
The Federal Reserve Is About to Go Full Banana Republic
The Federal Reserve Is About to Go Full Banana Republic Peeling back the truth, one banana at a time. According to an article on Yahoo! today, the top banana in finance, J. Powell, has already decided to go full bananatard. It is the financial hallmark of banana republics to print money in order to finance […]
Woods Exposes the Federal Reserve System
Woods Exposes the Federal Reserve System The first thing to know about Dr. Thomas E. Woods, Jr.’s’ book Our Enemy, the Fed is he’s giving it away. Click the link, get your copy and read the whole book. Clearly, such intellectual charity is not only rare but in the educational spirit of Mises.org. The subject matter is […]
Oil prices aren’t the Fed’s biggest problem right now — American demand is, says an economist
Oil prices aren’t the Fed’s biggest problem right now — American demand is, says an economist Inflation could see a resurgence in 2025, BlackRock strategists warned. Jonathan Kitchen/Getty Images “I think what’s difficult for the Fed currently is actually the part of CPI that is being driven by demand, rather than the supply issues or the […]
Markets Are Biting Their Lips over Global Chaos
Markets Are Biting Their Lips over Global Chaos And Fed Chair Powell is joining them because suddenly nothing is going right for his soft-landing plans! Rising Middle-East tensions are driving up the price of crude oil and driving down the price of stocks and value of bonds. Analysts are saying oil could go to $100/bbl […]
“The Federal Reserve Is Clearly Trapped”: Lawrence Lepard
“The Federal Reserve Is Clearly Trapped”: Lawrence Lepard Friend of Fringe Finance Lawrence Lepard released his most recent investor letter this week. Friend of Fringe Finance Lawrence Lepard released his most recent investor letter this week. He gets little coverage in the mainstream media, which, in my opinion, makes him someone worth listening to twice as closely. […]
What About Prices?
What About Prices? Chapter 8 from my forthcoming book Rebuilding Economics from the Top Down Inflation, having been quiescent for decades, became a serious issue once more with the bout of inflation that occurred after the peak of the government reaction to the Covid crisis. Though it did not reach the 12-15% levels of the […]
The “Business” of Central Banking—Usury and Tax Farming
The “Business” of Central Banking—Usury and Tax Farming Central banking is “a great business to be in, where you print money, and people believe it.” That’s what the head of New Zealand’s central bank said recently in an unscripted moment of candor. It led me to wonder about the nature of this strange “business.” Let […]
