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The Specter of Hyperinflation Looms over the Economy
The Specter of Hyperinflation Looms over the Economy The threat of hyperinflation has haunted fiat money economies throughout history. Although past empires crumbled under the weight of unrestrained money printing, modern bankers at the Federal Reserve assure us that today’s financial system is immune to such a fate. Austrian business cycle theory, however, reveals that […]
When Does This Travesty of a Mockery of a Sham Finally End?
When Does This Travesty of a Mockery of a Sham Finally End? Credit bubbles are not engines of sustainable employment, they are only engines of malinvestment and wealth destruction on a grand scale. We all know the Status Quo’s response to the global financial meltdown of 2008 has been a travesty of a mockery of […]
Things Work Until They Don’t
Things Work Until They Don’t As the world begins its next adventure in financial chaos and rolls over to expose its soft underbelly of lies and deceit that have been perpetrated on the public, those that see the truth have been warning the people once again. You can give people the truth but you cannot make […]
Ron Paul: We Are Reaching A Point Of No Return
Ron Paul: We Are Reaching A Point Of No Return When the system will break no matter what the Fed tries Dr. Ron Paul has long been a leading voice for limited constitutional government, low taxes, free markets, sound money, civil liberty, and non-interventionist foreign policies. Dr. Paul served as the US Representative for Texas’s […]
Automating Ourselves To Unemployment
Tatiana Shepeleva/Shutterstock Automating Ourselves To Unemployment How shortsighted policies are creating a long-term crisis Students of Austrian business cycle theory are familiar with the term malinvestment. A malinvestment is any poor use of resources or capital, commonly made in response to bad policy (usually artificially low interest rates and/or unsustainable increases in the monetary supply). The […]
US Money Supply Growth Finally Begins to Crack
US Money Supply Growth Finally Begins to Crack Breaking Below the Shelf In our recent missive on junk bonds, we inter alia discussed the fact that the growth rate of the narrow money supply aggregate M1 had declined rather noticeably from its peak in 2011. Here is a link to the chart. As we wrote: “We also […]
Faith in Central Banks Dwindles
Faith in Central Banks Dwindles Even Bloomberg Notices that Something is Amiss As anyone who hasn’t been in a coma knows, assorted central bank interventions have failed to achieve their stated goals over the past several years. A recent article at Bloomberg focuses on their failure to reach their “inflation” targets. Of course, this particular failure is […]
The problem isn’t overproduction; it’s malinvestment
The problem isn’t overproduction; it’s malinvestment Mr. Max Ehrendfreund, writing in the Washington Post’s Wonkblog, believes that he has discovered something new: that the world is producing too much and doesn’t know what to do with it. His solution, of course, is to confiscate the overproduced products, such as oil and cotton, from its rightful owners and […]
China Is A Monumental Economic Trainwreck—–The Evidence Is Mounting Rapidly
China Is A Monumental Economic Trainwreck—–The Evidence Is Mounting Rapidly How Fast is China Growing? Analyst estimates of Chinese growth keep getting lower and lower. Yet, those declining estimates have all been from a lofty level: From 10% to 9%, to 8% to 7.5%. China’s growth target for 2015 is 7.0%. Many question those growth […]
China “Ghost Town Index” – Here Are China’s 10 “Ghastliest” Cities | Zero Hedge
China “Ghost Town Index” – Here Are China’s 10 “Ghastliest” Cities | Zero Hedge. Who can forget China’s ghost city of Ordos: back in late 2009, when the hollow shell behind China’s torrid growth was first revealed to the world, the city near China’s Mongolia border was cooler talk for weeks. Fast forward five years later, […]