A few months ago the big revelation to gold bugs was Germany wanted its gold back from the Federal Reserve. What’s the world coming to when central banks don’t trust each other? Further, with central banks net buyers of gold for the last few years, something seems afoot in the global currency markets. In perhaps […]
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Paul Krugman on Cults and Economics
19 Mar 2013
“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you shut off the kingdom of heaven from people; for you do not enter in yourselves, nor do you allow those who are entering to go in. When I think about this verse from Matthew 23 of the Eight Woes, I can’t help but see some […]
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Janet Yellen, the current Vice-Chair of the Federal Reserve is rumored to be next in line to replace “Helicopter” Ben Bernanke. This is troubling because, as a committed Keynesian, she is a big fan of inflation as a way to lesson the pain of unemployment. Indeed, she is–as many others are–convinced that inflation causes small […]
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Bernanke–the best inflation fighter ever?
28 Feb 2013
That’s at least what Mr. Bernanke suggests when challenged by Senator Corker during congressional testimony on Tuesday: Perhaps its true, IF the measure of inflation we should be concerned about is the rate of change of CPI. But there are at least two ways to criticize this way of thinking, in addition to the serious […]
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