Recent Posts Tagged With 'federal reserve'

• A review of Thomas Woods’ “Meltdown”

  Posted on Saturday December 19th, 2009 at 21:12 in politics, books, history, economics, housing bubble, federal reserve, financial crisis, thomas woods, austrian school of economics

  One of the marks of great writing is that, no matter how abstract a subject might be, the author’s text remains lucid and understandable.  It is not crowded with irrelevant information, unduly antiquated language, or a dense texture.  H.L. Me...

• The Book Bomb To End the Fed — LewRockwell.com

  Posted on Tuesday August 25th, 2009 at 01:47 in ron paul, federal reserve, lew rockwell, book bomb, end the fed

  Here’s a shameless plug for a web campaign I helped create for LewRockwell.com: Clicking on the link above will take you to the promo page, where you can read about the effort and from there pre-order your own copy of the book while helping out...

• China calls for global currency…

  Posted on Friday June 26th, 2009 at 12:10 in china, economics, global currency, federal reserve, austrian economics

  …but you’re only surprised by this if you haven’t been paying attention. Of equal if not greater interest, the linked article makes mention of the high rate of personal savings that has ensued since the economy tanked.  This is con...

• Alan Greenspan’s comedy of hubris

  Posted on Monday June 8th, 2009 at 01:29 in ron paul, federal reserve, bob woodward, alan greenspan, murray rothbard

  A few years ago I was milling about—I think it was at an airport—with nothing to do while I waited for someone or something.  I hadn’t brought any reading material with me, so I wandered into one of those junk book stores that term...

• Illustrating Liberty: “The Fed Versus the World”

  Posted on Friday November 14th, 2008 at 11:04 in economics, thomas jefferson, federal reserve, checkers, university of alberta, gold standard, ludwig von mises institute, lvmi, checkernomics, chinook project, gary danelishen

  [Illustrating Liberty is a new, irregular feature on this blog featuring the occasional "Political Photoshoppery" of Aristotle A. Esguerra.] Gary Danelishen, a graduate student in applied economics at Auburn University, submitted a most interesting ...

• Learning the lessons of August 15

  Posted on Thursday September 11th, 2008 at 15:36 in terrorism, foreign policy, rudy giuliani, september 11, federal reserve, warmongering, richard m. nixon, the security racket

  Today, September 11, is a day of much State-sponsored solemnity in memory of the terrorist attacks that took place here seven years ago. One will read and hear much pious civic claptrap, but undoubtedly there will be little soul-searching as to what...

• Oink, Oink: American electorate is gleefully distracted by b.s.

  Posted on Wednesday September 10th, 2008 at 12:39 in iraq war, ron paul, federal reserve, bob barr, national debt

  This little tempest in a teapot is on its second or third day already. Barack Obama, referring to Sarah Palin, said that if you put lipstick on a pig, it’s still a pig. An enormously over-sized media- and McCain campaign-induced uproar ensued...