Sound Banking
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The Federal Debt is Near an All-time High
Throughout its history, AIER has pointed out the dangers of excessive amounts of both private and public debt.
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“Inflation in One Page” – Henry Hazlitt
“Prolonged inflation never “stimulates” the economy. On the contrary, it unbalances, disrupts, and misdirects production and employment. Unemployment is mainly caused by excessive wage rates in some industries, brought about either by extortionate union demands, by minimum wage laws (which keep teenagers and the unskilled out of jobs), or by prolonged and over-generous unemployment insurance.”…
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Calculating the Cost of Government – The Independent Institute
Our friends over at the Independent Institute are helping you find out just how much the U.S. government is costing you. Visit MyGovCost.org to access your Government Cost Calculator!
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“Bernanke Makes Case to Senators”
“Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke defended the central bank’s plan to buy government bonds during a private gathering with U.S. senators, responding to several days of attacks from Republicans who say the Fed is causing inflation and weakening the dollar. The Fed chairman denied the U.S. was manipulating the currency through its plan to purchase…
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“Fresh Attacks on Fed Move”
“A group of prominent Republican-leaning economists, coordinating with Republican lawmakers and political strategists, is launching a campaign this week calling on Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke to drop his plan to buy $600 billion in additional U.S. Treasury bonds. “The planned asset purchases risk currency debasement and inflation, and we do not think they will achieve…
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“Fed’s Plosser Says Understanding Crisis May Take 50 Years”
““It will be at least 50 years before we really understand very well what happened in 2008-2009, and we will be interpreting for another 50 years as to whether the Federal Reserve undertook the right policies or the wrong policies,” Plosser said today during an audience discussion at a Fed conference in Jekyll Island, Georgia.…
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“Ireland Crises Could Cause EU Collapse”
“The president of the European Union has warned that the EU could collapse unless the debt crisis that is gripping the region is resolved. Herman Van Rompuy, president of the European Council, raised the stakes ahead of this evening’s showdown talks between finance ministers in Brussels. With Ireland and Portugal both on the brink of…
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“Has the Fed Been a Failure?” – Selgin, Lastrapes and White
“As the one-hundredth anniversary of the 1913 Federal Reserve Act approaches, we assess whether the nation’s experiment with the Federal Reserve has been a success or a failure. Drawing on a wide range of empirical research, we find the following: 1) The Fed’s full history (1914 to present) has been characterized by more rather than…
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“Leading Chinese credit rating agency downgrades USA government bonds”
“One of China’s leading credit rating agencies has downgraded United States of America government debt in response to what it sees as deliberate devaluation of the dollar by quantitative easing and other means. If China, now the second biggest economy in the world, stops buying US government bonds this could have a very negative effect…
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Getting on Track
On Wednesday, November 10, Sound Money held a panel at annual Liberty Forum hosted by Atlas. The panel featured Judy Shelton, Sean Fieler and Steven Horwitz, with Matt Kibbe of FreedomWorks acting as moderator. Perhaps it is a bit self-serving to say that it was excellent, but the point still stands. I, personally, had little…
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The Federal Debt is Near an All-time High
Throughout its history, AIER has pointed out the dangers of excessive amounts of both private and public debt.
-
“Inflation in One Page” – Henry Hazlitt
“Prolonged inflation never “stimulates” the economy. On the contrary, it unbalances, disrupts, and misdirects production and employment. Unemployment is mainly caused by excessive wage rates in some industries, brought about either by extortionate union demands, by minimum wage laws (which keep teenagers and the unskilled out of jobs), or by prolonged and over-generous unemployment insurance.”…
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Calculating the Cost of Government – The Independent Institute
Our friends over at the Independent Institute are helping you find out just how much the U.S. government is costing you. Visit MyGovCost.org to access your Government Cost Calculator!
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“Bernanke Makes Case to Senators”
“Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke defended the central bank’s plan to buy government bonds during a private gathering with U.S. senators, responding to several days of attacks from Republicans who say the Fed is causing inflation and weakening the dollar. The Fed chairman denied the U.S. was manipulating the currency through its plan to purchase…
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“Fresh Attacks on Fed Move”
“A group of prominent Republican-leaning economists, coordinating with Republican lawmakers and political strategists, is launching a campaign this week calling on Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke to drop his plan to buy $600 billion in additional U.S. Treasury bonds. “The planned asset purchases risk currency debasement and inflation, and we do not think they will achieve…
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“Fed’s Plosser Says Understanding Crisis May Take 50 Years”
““It will be at least 50 years before we really understand very well what happened in 2008-2009, and we will be interpreting for another 50 years as to whether the Federal Reserve undertook the right policies or the wrong policies,” Plosser said today during an audience discussion at a Fed conference in Jekyll Island, Georgia.…
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“Ireland Crises Could Cause EU Collapse”
“The president of the European Union has warned that the EU could collapse unless the debt crisis that is gripping the region is resolved. Herman Van Rompuy, president of the European Council, raised the stakes ahead of this evening’s showdown talks between finance ministers in Brussels. With Ireland and Portugal both on the brink of…
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“Has the Fed Been a Failure?” – Selgin, Lastrapes and White
“As the one-hundredth anniversary of the 1913 Federal Reserve Act approaches, we assess whether the nation’s experiment with the Federal Reserve has been a success or a failure. Drawing on a wide range of empirical research, we find the following: 1) The Fed’s full history (1914 to present) has been characterized by more rather than…
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“Leading Chinese credit rating agency downgrades USA government bonds”
“One of China’s leading credit rating agencies has downgraded United States of America government debt in response to what it sees as deliberate devaluation of the dollar by quantitative easing and other means. If China, now the second biggest economy in the world, stops buying US government bonds this could have a very negative effect…
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Getting on Track
On Wednesday, November 10, Sound Money held a panel at annual Liberty Forum hosted by Atlas. The panel featured Judy Shelton, Sean Fieler and Steven Horwitz, with Matt Kibbe of FreedomWorks acting as moderator. Perhaps it is a bit self-serving to say that it was excellent, but the point still stands. I, personally, had little…
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