Money and Banks

Without a turn toward hard money, the odds are that the world’s dependence on the Greenback will not decline but presumably grow even more in the years to come.

The depreciation of the yuan since 2014 is more of a response to market movements than a planned devaluation to gain competitiveness illegitimately.

Central banks pretend all these benefits come at no cost to anyone. Unfortunately, we all ultimately pay the price. 

In a true market — i.e., without a central bank — banks are intermediaries of real savings in their lending activities, thus promoting genuine and real economic growth.

Economist Bob Murphy joins Jeff Deist to make sense of the nonsensical world of negative interest rates.

The movement for alternative money is the result of the history of government monetary mismanagement.

Not only does fractional-reserve banking gives rise to monetary inflation it is also responsible for monetary deflation. Money created out of "thin air" can disappear as rapidly as it was created.

To cause a truly disastrous boom and bust with far-fetching real consequences, you need to control the money supply.

James Grant's new book Bagehot: The Life and Times of the Greatest Victorian, reveals there we can still learn a lot from the world that existed before our modern era of central banking.

Central banks’ economic models predict deeper negative rates are necessary in the event that a significant recession materializes. This would be a disaster.