Monetary Policy
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End Banking as We Know It?
“Omarova is right to point out the deficiencies in central banking. Nonetheless, ending traditional banking to fix central banking would be like closing schools to improve student retention. There are easier ways forward.” ~ Kenneth Kalczuk
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Coin Can’t Save US from Debt Crisis
“If Treasury can just slap a figure on a hunk of metal and demand that the Federal Reserve credit its account with that figure, it could force the creation of as much money as the politicians controlling it want.” ~ Robert E. Wright
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Jerome Powell’s Quest for Economic Stability is Destabilizing
“By trying to pursue their declared goals through the monetary and interest rate policy tools at their disposal, they are, in fact, continuing to imbalance and wrongly ‘twist’ the real economy in ways that will result in instability.” ~ Richard M. Ebeling
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Lessons from the Financial Instability Hypothesis
“The Covid-19 recession was not triggered by financial causes, but the ballooning government debt the U.S. is currently pursuing, recklessly and with a vengeance, can only substitute a new unsustainable expansion for a sustainable recovery.” ~ Robert F. Mulligan
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After Lockdown
“Risks remain and the prospects for the global economy after lockdown remain uncertain. Honest valuation remains difficult when markets are so hampered. The next decade is likely to favour the tactical investor.” ~ Colin Lloyd
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The Lumber Market Crash
“Unfortunately, carefully considering trade-offs remains alien to the calculus of public officials. From utter scarcity to crushing abundance in less than 100 days, the lumber epic is entering a new phase.” ~ Peter C. Earle
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Monetary Institutions and Monetary Control: What the Fed Should and Shouldn’t Do
“Professors Boettke, Salter, and Smith take aim at the root of monetary policy of our time; finding it deeply deficient, they recommend putting central banks under very strict rules. Bring on the fetters.” ~ Joakim Book
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Corridor Versus Floor Operating Systems
“Although the Fed’s and the banks’ balance sheets have ballooned since the Great Recession, these reserves are less leveraged than they had been under the corridor system, because the IORB interest rate enables banks to earn income without lending.” ~ Robert F. Mulligan
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A Tragic Half Century Without Gold Money
“Fifty years without a gold-based monetary system is not only unprecedented in human history but unfriendly to economic prosperity.” ~ Richard M. Salsman
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Nixon’s Gold Treachery Made Me a Cynic
“If the government continues on this path, it is only a question of time until fresh debacles result. But from the economic wreckage, a new generation of cynics may arise who do a far better job of putting politicians back on a leash.” ~ James Bovard
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End Banking as We Know It?
“Omarova is right to point out the deficiencies in central banking. Nonetheless, ending traditional banking to fix central banking would be like closing schools to improve student retention. There are easier ways forward.” ~ Kenneth Kalczuk
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Coin Can’t Save US from Debt Crisis
“If Treasury can just slap a figure on a hunk of metal and demand that the Federal Reserve credit its account with that figure, it could force the creation of as much money as the politicians controlling it want.” ~ Robert E. Wright
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Jerome Powell’s Quest for Economic Stability is Destabilizing
“By trying to pursue their declared goals through the monetary and interest rate policy tools at their disposal, they are, in fact, continuing to imbalance and wrongly ‘twist’ the real economy in ways that will result in instability.” ~ Richard M. Ebeling
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Lessons from the Financial Instability Hypothesis
“The Covid-19 recession was not triggered by financial causes, but the ballooning government debt the U.S. is currently pursuing, recklessly and with a vengeance, can only substitute a new unsustainable expansion for a sustainable recovery.” ~ Robert F. Mulligan
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After Lockdown
“Risks remain and the prospects for the global economy after lockdown remain uncertain. Honest valuation remains difficult when markets are so hampered. The next decade is likely to favour the tactical investor.” ~ Colin Lloyd
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The Lumber Market Crash
“Unfortunately, carefully considering trade-offs remains alien to the calculus of public officials. From utter scarcity to crushing abundance in less than 100 days, the lumber epic is entering a new phase.” ~ Peter C. Earle
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Monetary Institutions and Monetary Control: What the Fed Should and Shouldn’t Do
“Professors Boettke, Salter, and Smith take aim at the root of monetary policy of our time; finding it deeply deficient, they recommend putting central banks under very strict rules. Bring on the fetters.” ~ Joakim Book
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Corridor Versus Floor Operating Systems
“Although the Fed’s and the banks’ balance sheets have ballooned since the Great Recession, these reserves are less leveraged than they had been under the corridor system, because the IORB interest rate enables banks to earn income without lending.” ~ Robert F. Mulligan
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A Tragic Half Century Without Gold Money
“Fifty years without a gold-based monetary system is not only unprecedented in human history but unfriendly to economic prosperity.” ~ Richard M. Salsman
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Nixon’s Gold Treachery Made Me a Cynic
“If the government continues on this path, it is only a question of time until fresh debacles result. But from the economic wreckage, a new generation of cynics may arise who do a far better job of putting politicians back on a leash.” ~ James Bovard