The Fed Holds the Fed Funds Rate Steady—Because It Doesn’t Know What Else to Do
(Mises)—The Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) on Wednesday left the target policy interest rate (the federal funds rate) ...
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Bank CEOs Have Their Heads in the Clouds
(Mises)—Bank CEOs always have their heads in the clouds. First, pessimists never earn a seat in the corner office. Plus, ...
A Ticking Time Bomb: A Huge National Debt Plus Rising Interest Rates
(Mises)—Those who have been predicting a recession in the United States and an associated stock market crash seem to be ...
Will the BRICS Dethrone the U.S. Dollar?
The summit of the so-called BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) has closed with an invitation to join the group ...
“Debanking”: The Latest Assault on Freedom of Speech
Threats to freedom of speech and efforts to suppress dissenting views and voices have been on the rise over the ...
What the Central Bank Cartel has Planned for You
The Austrian(TA): What is the global currency plot, and who benefits most from the success of this effort? Thorsten Polleit ...
Is the US Banking System a House of Cards Waiting to Topple?
It’s the deposits. Bankers never used to worry about the money customers left in their banks. When deposited, the money ...
The New Socialism Is a Public-Private Partnership
Editor's Commentary: The article below by Jörg Guido Hülsmann from the Mises Institute is an important read. It's long. It's ...
The Fed: Harming the Economy for Over a Century
Since its founding in 1913, the unelected central planning bureaucrats at the Federal Reserve have been given the incredible privilege ...
Gold Will Destroy the Keynesian Fallacies
Leaders of the Western democracies are unprepared to deal with the forces that will end the fiat dollar’s dominance as ...