Angry Over Oil Price? Demand a Change in Fed Policy
The price of oil has shot up over $100 a barrel, and the price of gasoline is headed to $4 a gallon. True to form, the call has gone out to “round up all the usual suspects.” Channeling the orders of...
View ArticleWant to Create Jobs? Cut Government Spending
Sometimes, the methods to produce results are counter-intuitive. For example, skillful pruning of grape vines is essential to the production of vineyards, and cutting back a rose bush promotes its...
View ArticleGovernments are the Primary Creators of Systemic Risk
The greatest lesson of the still young 21st century is proving to be that governments are the primary source of systemic risk to the economy, our standard of living, and our liberty. The latest case in...
View ArticleThe US Government’s Spectacular Failure
Spectacular failure. These words came to mind as the dismal employment data for June were released on July 8. After the biggest spending binge in peacetime American history, the unemployment rate is...
View ArticleIs Gold Money?
Is gold money? That question, directed to Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke by Congressman Ron Paul in last week’s hearings before the House Financial Services Committee, strikes terror in the...
View ArticleMonetary Reform: The Beginning of the Beginning
Fundamental reform of the world’s monetary system has begun. It is way too early and too amorphous to be front-page news. We are only at the beginning of the beginning of a popular effort to restore...
View ArticleThe Federal Reserve’s Explicit Goal: Devalue the Dollar 33%
The Federal Reserve Open Market Committee (FOMC) has made it official: After its latest two day meeting, it announced its goal to devalue the dollar by 33% over the next 20 years. The debauch of the...
View ArticleTim Geithner Covers for Corruption on Pennsylvania Avenue
Last Friday, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner charged in a Wall Street Journal op-ed that those who oppose the Obama Administration’s regulatory regime for the financial services industry “seem to...
View ArticleThe Rising Price of a Falling Dollar
Do you know why oil and prices are moving sharply higher? Some blame the oil companies, charging they are manipulating prices. Others cite US sanctions on Iran and the threat of a military encounter...
View ArticleBen Bernanke’s Paper Dollar Embodies Systemic Risk
The paper dollar is now the single most important source of systemic risk to the financial system, the world economy, and the security of the American people. That is the lesson of the past 100 years...
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