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Fiat Money Cannibalization in America
Fiat Money Cannibalization in America An Odd Combination of Serenity and Panic The United States, with untroubled ease, continued its approach toward catastrophe this week. The Federal Reserve cut the federal funds rate 25 basis points, thus furthering its program of mass money debasement. Yet, on the surface, all still remained in the superlative. S&P […]
These Are The Banks Where The Fed’s $1.4 Trillion In Reserves Are Parked
These Are The Banks Where The Fed’s $1.4 Trillion In Reserves Are Parked Over the past few days there has been much confusion over the repocalpyse that shook the overnight funding market, and just as much confusion over the definition of reserves which some banks were unwilling to part with, other banks were desperate for, and in […]
For Canada’s Banks This Is “The Next Shoe To Drop”, And Why It Will Drop This Spring
For Canada’s Banks This Is “The Next Shoe To Drop”, And Why It Will Drop This Spring Roughly around the time the market troughed in early February, we asked “After The European Bank Bloodbath, Is Canada Next?” The reason for this question was simple: we said that “when compared to US banks’ (artificially low) reserves […]
The Bubble Finance Cycle: What Our Keynesian School Marm Doesn’t Get, Part 2
The Bubble Finance Cycle: What Our Keynesian School Marm Doesn’t Get, Part 2 In Part 1 of The Bubble Finance Cycle we demonstrated that a main street based wage and price spiral always proceeded recessions during the era of Lite Touch monetary policy (1951 to 1985). That happened because the Fed was perennially “behind the curve” and […]
If We Don’t Change the Way Money Is Created and Distributed, Rising Inequality Will Trigger Social Disorder
If We Don’t Change the Way Money Is Created and Distributed, Rising Inequality Will Trigger Social Disorder Centrally issued money optimizes inequality, monopoly, cronyism, stagnation, low social mobility and systemic instability. If we don’t change the way money is created and distributed, wealth inequality will widen to the point of social disorder. Everyone who wants […]
US Credit Growth – the First Cracks?
US Credit Growth – the First Cracks? Inflationary Bank Lending and Money Supply Growth Given that there is currently no “QE” program underway – with the exception of the reinvestment scheme designed to prevent the Fed’s balance sheet from shrinking (if it were to shrink, the money supply would decline as well) – money supply […]
Is This The Start Of India’s Gold Confiscation
Is This The Start Of India’s Gold Confiscation On April 5, 1933, FDR signed Executive order 6102 which made illegal “the Hoarding of gold coin, gold bullion, and gold certificates within the continental United States” in the process criminalizing the possession of monetary gold by any individual or corporation. This was de facto gold confiscation; […]
Bank Reserves and Loans: The Fed is Pushing On a String
Bank Reserves and Loans: The Fed is Pushing On a String The money multiplier effect no longer works. As you (hopefully) know, we live in a fractional reserve banking system: if the bank is required to have $1 in cash reserves for every $10 in loans, it means the bank creates $10 of new money when it issues a […]
The Banking System Can’t Lend Out Reserves, But a Bank Can – Ludwig von Mises Institute Canada
The Banking System Can’t Lend Out Reserves, But a Bank Can – Ludwig von Mises Institute Canada. This post will seem simple to some, but I want to correct a slight confusion I’ve seen over the last several years in the economics blogosphere. (I was motivated to write because of an exchange with Nick Freiling, who […]
