Classical Economics in a Quantum World
The financial media is abuzz with news of a strong dollar vs a weak dollar. Which way will the dollar go? Traders churn trillions in currency and interest rate derivatives every market day betting on the outcome of this question. …
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The PhD Scourge Danielle DiMartino Booth has written a timely book about the Fed, Fed Up, An Insider’s Take on Why the Federal Reserve is Bad for America. Fed Up deconstructs the Fed from the lofty pedestal upon which conventional wisdom has…
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Financial media, pundits, economists, government officials, and pretty much everyone else continue to categorize rate hikes as if the Fed were still conducting policy under normalized, traditional operating procedures. Bernanke tore asunder normalized Fed operating procedures after the 2008 financial…
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Massive, long-term excess reserves are the anomaly that resulted from deviation of historic Fed monetary policy that began in 2008. From 1913 to 1971 the Fed targeted a dollar fixed weight of gold to determine the economy’s required base money,…
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There is a palpable glee among some that is evident whenever the price of gold falls.¹ It manifests itself in the media, academia, pundits, and certain segments of the investment world. Paul Krugman becomes orgasmic. A fall in the price…
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The Opening Salvo Regardless of what you think about Trump, he recently did the world a big service. He pointed out, in his unique, unadulterated style, the monetary elephant in the room to a global audience. Trump’s attack on the…
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Fed Operating Targets The latest round of will-the-Fed-or-won’t-the-Fed-finally-hike-rates has passed. The world waited breathlessly for the Federal Reserve to announce their latest FOMC decision. Once again, the Fed punted on announcing another measly .25% funds rate hike and averted the…
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“Central banks are treading in uncharted waters. Sidney Homer and Richard Sylla, the authors of A History of Interest Rates found no instance of negative rates in 5,000 years. Now there are $11.7 trillion invested in negative-yield sovereign debt, including $7.9 trillion in Japanese…
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Despite its present day seeming omnipotent power, the Fed still retains only one significant economic lever.¹ This has been true since the Fed’s creation in 1913. The Fed can create base money or remove it. The Fed has complete, total…
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In The Scandal of Money, George Gilder delivers the monetary bookend to his 1981 influential fiscal policy best seller, Wealth and Poverty. W&P greatly influenced Reagan’s economic blueprint for tax cuts across the board, welfare reform, and entrepreneurial fiscal policy. …
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