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The Zealous Pursuit of State-Sponsored Collapse
The Zealous Pursuit of State-Sponsored Collapse When Bakers Go Fishing Government intervention into a nation’s economy is as foolish as attempting to control the sun’s rise and fall by law or force. But that doesn’t mean governments don’t meddle each and every day with the best – and worst – of intentions. The United States […]
How Uncle Sam Inflates Away Your Life
How Uncle Sam Inflates Away Your Life “Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon,” once remarked economist and Nobel Prize recipient Milton Friedman. He likely meant that inflation is the more rapid increase in the supply of money relative to the output of goods and services which money is traded for. As more and […]
The Downright Sinister Rearrangement of Riches
The Downright Sinister Rearrangement of Riches Simple Classifications Let’s begin with facts. Cold hard unadorned facts. Water boils at 212 degrees Fahrenheit at standard atmospheric pressure. Squaring the circle using a compass and straightedge is impossible. The sun is a star. The sun is not just a star, it is a benevolent star. Look, it […]
Federal Reserve President Kashkari’s Masterful Distractions
Federal Reserve President Kashkari’s Masterful Distractions The True Believer How is it that seemingly intelligent people, of apparent sound mind and rational thought, can stray so far off the beam? How come there are certain professions that reward their practitioners for their failures? The central banking and monetary policy vocation rings the bell on […]
Fed Quack Treatments are Causing the Stagnation
Fed Quack Treatments are Causing the Stagnation Bleeding the Patient to Health There’s something alluring about cure-alls and quick fixes. Who doesn’t want a magic panacea to make every illness or discomfort disappear? Such a yearning once compelled the best and the brightest minds to believe the impossible for over two thousand years. Instantaneous relief! […]
Janet Yellen’s 78-Month Plan for the National Monetary Policy of the United States
Janet Yellen’s 78-Month Plan for the National Monetary Policy of the United States Past the Point of No Return Adventures in depravity are nearly always confronted with the unpleasant reality that stopping the degeneracy is much more difficult than starting it. This realization, and the unsettling feeling that comes with it, usually surfaces just after […]
To Hell In A Bucket
To Hell In A Bucket “No one really cares about the U.S. federal debt,” remarked a colleague and Economic Prism reader earlier in the week. “You keep writing about it as if anyone gives a lick.” We could tell he was just warming up. So, we settled back into our chair and made ourselves comfortable. […]
The Government Debt Paradox: Pick Your Poison
The Government Debt Paradox: Pick Your Poison Lasting Debt “Rule one: Never allow a crisis to go to waste,” said President Obama’s Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel in November of 2008. “They are opportunities to do big things.” Rahm Emanuel looks happy. He should be – he is the mayor of Chicago, which is best […]
How to Make the Financial System Radically Safer
How to Make the Financial System Radically Safer Preventing the Last Crisis Clear thinking and discerning rigor when it comes to the twisted state of present economic policy matters brings with it many physical ailments. A permanent state of disbelief, for instance, manifests in dry eyes and droopy shoulders. So, too, a curious skepticism produces […]
Why There Will Be No 11th Hour Debt Ceiling Deal
Why There Will Be No 11th Hour Debt Ceiling Deal A new milestone on the American populaces’ collective pursuit of insolvency was reached this week. According to a reportpublished on Tuesday by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, total U.S. household debt jumped to a new record high of $12.84 trillion during the second […]
Monetary Madness and Rabbit Consumption
Monetary Madness and Rabbit Consumption Down the Rabbit Hole “The hurrier I go, the behinder I get,” is oft attributed to the White Rabbit from Lewis Carroll’s, Alice in Wonderland. Where this axiom appears within the text of the story is a mystery. But we suspect the White Rabbit must utter it about the time […]
The Three Headed Debt Monster That’s Going to Ravage the Economy
The Three Headed Debt Monster That’s Going to Ravage the Economy Mass Infusions of New Credit “The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It’s the monster. Men made it, but they can’t control it.” – John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath Something strange and somewhat senseless happened this week. On Tuesday, the price […]
Warnings from Mount Vesuvius
Warnings from Mount Vesuvius “Injustice, swift, erect, and unconfin’d, Sweeps the wide earth, and tramples o’er mankind” – Homer, The Iliad When Mount Vesuvius Blew Everything was just the way it was supposed to be in Pompeii on August 24, 79 A.D. The gods had bestowed wealth and abundance upon the inhabitants of this Roman […]
The Coming Debt Reckoning
The Coming Debt Reckoning American workers, as a whole, are facing a disagreeable disorder. Their debt burdens are increasing. Their incomes are stagnating. There are many reasons why. In truth, it would take several large volumes to chronicle all of them. But when you get down to the ‘lick log’ of it all, the disorder stems from decades […]
