Let’s Print More Money, ‘Merica!
U.S. President Barack Obama has selected liberal economist Janet Yellen to replace Ben Bernanke as chairman of the Federal Reserve – the secretive central bank...
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Much Ado About Shutdown
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We’ve written previously on how the looming government shutdown isn’t really a “shutdown.” Of the federal government’s 2.1 million employees roughly 800,000 will be furloughed...
Ron Paul: A Grand Bargain For Liberty?
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As I write this, it appears that the federal government is about to shut down because the House and Senate cannot agree on whether to...
What Money Printing Looks Like …
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We all know that the Federal Reserve – America’s secretive central bank – is printing trillions of dollars worth of new “assets” in an effort...
US Economic Growth Revised Downward
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The United States economy grew much slower than originally expected during the first quarter of 2013 according to revised data released this week by the...
Ben Bernanke’s “Wounded Heart” Economy
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Like most of the crappy decisions that have come out of Washington, D.C. this millenium, Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke is both parties’ fault. Appointed...
The Money Printing Desert
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Zero Hedge – which we have come to regard as the most fantastic economics website on the planet – has a great guest post up...
The Gold Crash
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The price of gold fell 13 percent in just two days this week – its biggest two-day decline in thirty-three years. What happened? “The most...
The Federal Reserve’s “Premature Release”
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Two months after it was hacked, the secretive U.S. Federal Reserve was caught off guard by a “premature release” of sensitive economic information. Happens to...
Ruh-Roh, Fed!
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So the Federal Reserve – the secretive government architect of our current “recovery” – got hacked this week and coughed up what the agency describes...