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Money Printing And The Bane Of Financial Engineering—–How The Biggest LBO In History Blew-Up
Money Printing And The Bane Of Financial Engineering—–How The Biggest LBO In History Blew-Up Financial engineering is one of the worst ills perpetuated by the Fed’s regime of cheap debt and money market subsidies for speculation. And these deformations are turbo-charged by the tax code which creates a powerful bias toward loading capital structures with […]
Modern-Day Monetary Cranks and the Fed’s “Inflation” Target
Modern-Day Monetary Cranks and the Fed’s “Inflation” Target One Bad Idea After Another Ben Bernanke is frequently in the news these days. The latest occasion concerns his opinion on the Fed’s “inflation” target, i.e., the target for the speed at which money should be debased relative to consumer goods in order to finally attain centrally […]
The Bank-State Bargain
The Bank-State Bargain “I react pragmatically. Where the market works, I’m for that. Where the government is necessary, I’m for that. I’m deeply suspicious of somebody who says, “I’m in favor of privatization,” or, “I’m deeply in favor of public ownership.” I’m in favor of whatever works in the particular case.” J K Galbraith There’s no […]
Iceland To Take Back The Power To Create Money
Iceland To Take Back The Power To Create Money Who knew that the revolution would start with those radical Icelanders? It does, though. One Frosti Sigurjonsson, a lawmaker from the ruling Progress Party, issued a report today that suggests taking the power to create money away from commercial banks, and hand it to the central […]
The Way Out
The Way Out It’s not what most people think: a return to some hypothetical “normality,” with the ghost of Ronnie Reagan beaming down like a sun-god under his lopsided pompadour, and all the happy self-driving GM cars toodling back and forth from WalMart-to-home loaded to the scuppers with new electric pop-tart warmers and 3-D underwear […]
How money creation threatens hyperinflation
How money creation threatens hyperinflation In order to understand the relationship between money creation and the price level, we first need to get some definitions straight. To Austrians the terms inflation and deflation refer to money and not prices. There is no doubt that money has experienced unprecedented inflation. In February of 2010 base money […]
Philip Haslam: When Money Destroys Nations
Philip Haslam: When Money Destroys Nations Understanding how currencies collapse The global debt glut, plus the related money printing efforts by the world’s central banks to try to stimulate further credit growth at all costs, leads us to conclude that a major currency crisis — actually, multiple major currency crises — are practically inevitable at […]
The Federal Reserve Bank Must Be Destroyed!
The Federal Reserve Bank Must Be Destroyed! “Delanda est in Susidium Foederatum Bank” (The Federal Reserve Bank Must be Destroyed) During the years of the Roman Republic, Cato the Elder ended every speech with the phrase “Delanda est Carthago” (Carthage must be destroyed). Rome had fought two wars with Carthage, yet the threat to the […]
Is Japan Zimbabwe?
Is Japan Zimbabwe? Is Japan Zimbabwe? How preposterous: Japan is an advanced economy that cannot possibly suffer the same fate as Zimbabwe. Right? Or could Japan get hyperinflation? Below I explain why Japan, and with it investors’ portfolios, might be at risk. The other day, when I was on a panel discussing unsustainable deficits in […]
The Great Immoderation: How The Fed Is Sowing The Next Recession
The Great Immoderation: How The Fed Is Sowing The Next Recession In February 2004 Ben Bernanke famously declared the business cycle had been tamed and took a bow in behalf of enlightened monetary management, claiming it was the principal source of this beneficent development. Exactly 55 months later, of course, he terrorized the Congressional leadership and a clueless President […]
Time for Some Mattress Padding
Time for Some Mattress Padding Can you imagine borrowing $1000 from the bank and receiving $10 per year interest from the bank? I didn’t think so. However, this is the happy situation facing some European countries and even a few Swiss companies. The Swiss, Swedish, and Danish governments and the food multinational Nestle are now borrowing money from […]
Forget The $1 Trillion Platinum Coin–Here’s the $10 Trillion Stone Coin
Forget The $1 Trillion Platinum Coin–Here’s the $10 Trillion Stone Coin The point I’m making with the $10 trillion stone coin is that if money is a social contrivance, then it should be distributed to those creating goods and services. You’ve probably heard of the $1 trillion platinum coin proposal: the basic idea is the U.S. Mint issues […]
“We Just Need To Print More Money” Bank Of Japan’s New Board Member Clarifies Endgame
“We Just Need To Print More Money” Bank Of Japan’s New Board Member Clarifies Endgame The Abe administration nominated a major proponent of reflationary (inflationary) monetary policy to the central bank’s board, buttressing Governor Haruhiko Kuroda’s efforts to save the nation from the dread of deflation. As Bloomberg reports, economist Yutaka Harada, who will replace Ryuzo Miyao, […]
A Very Pernicious Partnership: Keynesian Money Printers And Wall Street Gamblers
A Very Pernicious Partnership: Keynesian Money Printers And Wall Street Gamblers No sooner was the January jobs report released than the Wall Street Journal posted a succinct headline: “Hiring, Wages Pick Up as Job Market Nears Full Health”. Whether the job market is actually as red hot as the BLS’ headline numbers is a debatable topic, but it […]
How China Deals With Deflation: A 60% Pay Raise For 39 Million Public Workers
How China Deals With Deflation: A 60% Pay Raise For 39 Million Public Workers While the rest of the developed world, flooded with re-exported deflation as a result of now ubiquitous money printing, scrambles to print even more money in hopes of stimulating the economy when all it is doing is accelerating a closed deflationary loop (at […]
