Federal Reserve
The Federal Reserve: Enemy of American Workers
According to numbers released by the US government, consumer prices have increased by 7.5 percent in the past year, the steepest increase since 1982. The actual price increases are even worse than the government numbers suggest, given that the “official” statistics...
Taxing the Exchange of Dollars for Monetary Metals Is an Atrocious Policy
Last year was a good year for state-level sound money legislation across the United States. 2022 could be even better. Building on the success enjoyed by sound money advocates in Arkansas and Ohio last year, more than a half dozen states are now considering...
Federal Reserve Failure
What do the Federal Reserve and neoconservatives have in common? They both refuse to admit that their policies — the neocons’ promotion of perpetual war and the Fed’s manipulation of the money supply — are complete failures, having produced the opposite of the...
Yes, We Can Trust the Fed. To Keep Devaluing Our Money
As Congress finally came to an agreement recently to temporarily lift the debt ceiling, investors breathed a sigh of relief. The stock market bounced and commodity indexes ran up to new multi-year highs. Precious metals markets, meanwhile, staged modest advances after...