Sound Money
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DC’s GENIUS Plan: Use Stablecoins to Soak Up Its Own Debt
The GENIUS Act requires that stablecoin issuers hold their assets in cash, short-term US Treasury securities, or as balances at the Fed. That increased demand for debt will keep borrowing costs down.
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What Moody’s US Credit Downgrade Means for You
The US Dollar Index fell following the credit downgrade announcement and continues to decline. But what will this mean for average Americans?
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Is Bitcoin Ready To Retire Gold?
Investors and even central banks have their eye on Bitcoin as a safe haven and hedge, but gold’s global economic shoes are hard to fill.
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What a Trumped-up Fed Means for the Global Economy
While the Fed’s core duties remain off-limits to Trump’s regulatory overhaul, the administration clearly wants to subordinate the central bank to its political objectives.
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From 65 Cents to $5.69: Big Macs Show How The Federal Reserve Ate Your Bills’ Buying Power
Inflation, driven by government spending, has gobbled up 85 percent of the Big Macs you could have bought. But we’re unlikely to see supersized bills in circulation.
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Bitcoin’s Ascent Is a Triumph for Truth and Economic Reality
Bitcoin is a vote of no confidence in the fiscal and monetary mess our officials made for us. We want rules, not rulers.
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Is Inflation in 2024 Fueled by Supply or Demand?
Pandemics, storms, and supply chains gaps comprise just 8.3 percent of inflation since 2020. 90 percent is fueled by increased spending (demand).
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Entitlement Collapse is Worse Than it Looks
“Voters need to understand that by not pressuring politicians to deal with entitlements now, we might end up with a substantial amount of the means of American production being owned by the government. This will harm our society incalculably.” ~David C. Rose
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The Permanent Temptation of All Governments
“The math of 2 percent compound shrinkage demonstrates that the Fed wants to depreciate the dollar’s purchasing power by 80 percent in each average lifetime. Somehow the Fed never mentions this.” ~Alex Pollock
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The Federal Reserve and Pandora’s Box
“In the name of preventing a second Great Depression, then-Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke opened a Pandora’s Box of monetary ills in 2008. And like the Greek myth, there may be no way of putting these ills back in the box.” ~Paul Mueller
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DC’s GENIUS Plan: Use Stablecoins to Soak Up Its Own Debt
The GENIUS Act requires that stablecoin issuers hold their assets in cash, short-term US Treasury securities, or as balances at the Fed. That increased demand for debt will keep borrowing costs down.
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What Moody’s US Credit Downgrade Means for You
The US Dollar Index fell following the credit downgrade announcement and continues to decline. But what will this mean for average Americans?
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•
Is Bitcoin Ready To Retire Gold?
Investors and even central banks have their eye on Bitcoin as a safe haven and hedge, but gold’s global economic shoes are hard to fill.
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•
What a Trumped-up Fed Means for the Global Economy
While the Fed’s core duties remain off-limits to Trump’s regulatory overhaul, the administration clearly wants to subordinate the central bank to its political objectives.
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•
From 65 Cents to $5.69: Big Macs Show How The Federal Reserve Ate Your Bills’ Buying Power
Inflation, driven by government spending, has gobbled up 85 percent of the Big Macs you could have bought. But we’re unlikely to see supersized bills in circulation.
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•
Bitcoin’s Ascent Is a Triumph for Truth and Economic Reality
Bitcoin is a vote of no confidence in the fiscal and monetary mess our officials made for us. We want rules, not rulers.
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•
Is Inflation in 2024 Fueled by Supply or Demand?
Pandemics, storms, and supply chains gaps comprise just 8.3 percent of inflation since 2020. 90 percent is fueled by increased spending (demand).
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Entitlement Collapse is Worse Than it Looks
“Voters need to understand that by not pressuring politicians to deal with entitlements now, we might end up with a substantial amount of the means of American production being owned by the government. This will harm our society incalculably.” ~David C. Rose
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•
The Permanent Temptation of All Governments
“The math of 2 percent compound shrinkage demonstrates that the Fed wants to depreciate the dollar’s purchasing power by 80 percent in each average lifetime. Somehow the Fed never mentions this.” ~Alex Pollock
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•
The Federal Reserve and Pandora’s Box
“In the name of preventing a second Great Depression, then-Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke opened a Pandora’s Box of monetary ills in 2008. And like the Greek myth, there may be no way of putting these ills back in the box.” ~Paul Mueller