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President Franklin D. Roosevelt: Architect of Monetary Madness and a U.S. Debt Default

July 8, 2018

President Franklin D. Roosevelt: Architect of Monetary Madness and a U.S. Debt Default Every schoolchild is dutifully taught that President Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) was America’s savior. They are repeatedly told that FDR and his New Deal policies pulled the U.S. out of the Great Depression. What nonsense. In fact, FDR was the architect of […]

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Venezuela’s Episode of Hyperinflation Reaches New “Highs” – Prices Double Every 17.5 Days

May 20, 2018

Venezuela’s Episode of Hyperinflation Reaches New “Highs” – Prices Double Every 17.5 Days The most important price in an economy is the exchange rate between the local currency and the world’s reserve currency — the U.S. dollar. As long as there is an active black-market (read: free market) for currency and the data are available, […]

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Venezuela’s Inflation Surges to A New High: 8321%

March 23, 2018

Venezuela’s Inflation Surges to A New High: 8321% After Venezuela ditched its multiple exchange-rate system and announced that it would introduce a new cryptocurrency (read: the petro), the hapless bolivar staged a bit of a rally. Many people concluded that the rally was the result of these two policy changes. While that conclusion might hold […]

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Venezuela’s Grim Reaper: A Current Inflation Measurement – Current Annual Rate 2875%

November 1, 2017

Venezuela’s Grim Reaper: A Current Inflation Measurement – Current Annual Rate 2875% The Grim Reaper has taken his scythe to the Venezuelan bolivar. The death of the bolivar is depicted in the following chart. A bolivar is worthless, and with its collapse, Venezuela is witnessing the world’s worst inflation. As the bolivar collapsed and inflation […]

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In Emerging Markets, It’s Time To Dump Most Central Banks, And Their Currencies Too

May 23, 2017

In Emerging Markets, It’s Time To Dump Most Central Banks, And Their Currencies Too On March 16th, the New York Times carried reportage by Peter S. Goodman, Keith Bradsher and Neil Gough, which was titled “The Fed Acts. Workers in Mexico and Merchants in Malaysia Suffer.” The theme of their extensive reportage is that U.S. […]

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Why the Saudi Princes are Panicked

April 25, 2016

Why the Saudi Princes are Panicked The Saudi deputy crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, recently pulled the plug on an output freeze deal that was scheduled to have been signed by oil producers in Doha, Qatar. Since then, the press has been filled with the same story: Prince Mohammed was offended because Iran was a […]

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