France Is Catching Up to Japan, but Not in a Good Way
France is seeing its wealth-to-income levels rise to Japan's level because it is becoming harder for people to save and build wealth.
France is seeing its wealth-to-income levels rise to Japan's level because it is becoming harder for people to save and build wealth.
Since the early 1960s, African nations have gained political independence from colonial powers, but the monetary colonialism of fiat money continues.
While Fed policies openly try to make prices "stable," the central bank actually is creating economic instability and an impoverished economy.
Money velocity's role in forcing up prices is misunderstood because today's monetary "authorities" fail to consider how new money is injected into the economy.
Popular economic wisdom says central banks can counter harmful effects of inflation by raising interest rates. Unfortunately, such moves carry their own forms of misallocation of resources and capital.
Ryan McMaken and Tho Bishop discuss recent inflation news, broader chaos in financial markets, and another round of funding for Ukraine.
Since the early 1960s, African nations have gained political independence from colonial powers, but the monetary colonialism of fiat money continues.
Last year, Joe Biden and his administration claimed that inflation was "transitory." This year, Vladimir Putin gets the blame. Next year, Biden will blame American businesses. And the beat goes on.
The Keynesian "stimulus" policies were suppose to reinvigorate the economy. Instead, they have brought stagflation.
It is interesting that the founder and leader of the market monetarists declared in January 2020 that the world was about to enter a "golden age" of low inflation for the Federal Reserve.