-
The Hera Research Newsletter ( HRN ) is delighted to present the following powerful interview with noted speaker and best selling author Dr. Marc Faber, whose newsletter, The Gloom Boom & Doom Report , highlights unusual investment opportunities. Dr. Faber is a popular speaker at investment seminars...
Posted to
Hera
by
Ron Hera
on
Thu, Sep 23 2010
Filed under:
Filed under: Federal reserve, US dollar, inflation, GDP, USDX, Gold, Hyperinflation, HUI, XAU, precious metals, FOMC, Treasuries
-
The Federal Reserve, Price Stability, and CPI by Alex Merced While here at LibertyisNow.com I've been discussing several economic and philosohical concepts regarding individualism and Liberty, no war is won over night yet strewn across many hard fought battles. The battle at hand is similar to the...
Posted to
AlexMerced
by
Alex Merced
on
Thu, Aug 12 2010
Filed under:
Filed under: Federal Reserve, Austrian Economics, 1870, 1920, Andrew Jackson, Macroeconomics, CPI, Martin Van Buren, Microeconomics, Price Stability, History, 1913, 1929, Full Employment
-
The productive elements of the US economy are caught between powerful financial interests, e.g., banks seeking speculative gains, political constituencies seeking entitlements and government entities at all levels whose budgets and deficits are too large compared to their revenues. All three factions...
Posted to
Hera
by
Ron Hera
on
Mon, Jul 19 2010
Filed under:
Filed under: Federal reserve, debt, GDP, Asia, Asian Tigers, China, central bank, Federal Budget, unemployment, Deindustrialization, Bailouts, Capitalism, Corporatism, Trade Deficit, Socialism, Totalitarianism, Offshoring, Outsourcing, Service Economy
-
Regulating Enterprise by Alex Merced Time and time again we hear in the news that we need stronger regulation on Oil, Housing, and Banking to prevent all the problems we've seen over the last few years. Today, I'd like to make the argument that the problems with all three of these sectors has...
Posted to
AlexMerced
by
Alex Merced
on
Wed, Jun 30 2010
Filed under:
Filed under: Subsidies, Moral Hazard, Risk, Taxes, Federal Reserve, SIPC, FDIC, Liability, Fannie, Oil, Central Banks, Unemployment, Freddie, Real Estate, Housing, Enterprise
-
The case for a meaningful and recurring audit of the Federal Reserve, because we deserve an honest, transparent government. The legislative and judicial battles to audit the Fed will go down in history as a textbook example of populism vs. corporatism. It’s official, Senator Sanders’ financial...
-
Free Market Regulation Explained by Alex Merced Everyone always assumes that as free marketers that we advocate there be no regulations at all, but the truth is we think there should be no government monopolies of regulation or violence used in enforcing it. Then the response always is, if the government...
Posted to
AlexMerced
by
Alex Merced
on
Sun, Apr 25 2010
Filed under:
Filed under: Private Sector, FINRA, Entertainment, Federal Reserve, Consequence, Regulation, SIPC, Individualism, Magazines, Rating Agencies, Free Market, SEC, Reviews, FDIC, Collectivism
-
Your Federal Reserve at Work By Monty Pelerin , posted April 17th, 2010 http://www.economicnoise.com/2010/04/17/your-federal-reserve-at-work/ I have often characterized the government as a cornered, wounded animal willing to do or say anything to survive. The Fed, of course, is nothing more than a servant...
-
Martenson on the Fed By Monty Pelerin , posted April 8th, 2010 http://www.economicnoise.com/2010/04/08/martenson-on-the-fed/ The Fed’s Shell Game Continues … April 07, 2010 Chris Martenson Executive Summary Record-breaking Treasury auctions continue to go off without a hitch, thanks to massive...
-
Investors often seek safety from financial market turbulence in US government bonds since they offer virtually no risk of default and, unlike cash or gold, provide a yield. At the same time, sovereign debt default concerns outside the US, e.g., Iceland , Dubai , and Greece , have been linked to short...
-
If a bank uses reserve money to base its credit expansion on, and they daily borrow/loan reserves to other banks to make their reserve requirements, then the argument that they have increased reserves now due to Fed bank balance sheet increase and they are not loaning these reserves out is nonsense....
-
Ben Bernanke, Chairman of the US Federal Reserve, faces a Sisyphean task because US banks are experiencing debt deflation and, because lending is now at much lower levels, monetary deflation is encumbering the domestic US economy as existing debts continue to be serviced. Government deficit spending...
Posted to
Hera
by
Ron Hera
on
Wed, Mar 10 2010
Filed under:
Filed under: Federal reserve, US dollar, CPI, deflation, debt, inflation, GDP, central banks, money supply, US economy, central bank, M3
-
If a lawless gang of madmen, gamblers and alcoholics seized control of a large company, how would you expect the business to perform? How would you expect the story to end? What if, instead of a company, they seized control of the world's largest economy, thus, to some extent, the world financial...
Posted to
Hera
by
Ron Hera
on
Tue, Dec 1 2009
Filed under:
Filed under: Federal reserve, US dollar, CPI, deflation, inflation, GDP, USDX, central banks, Gold, US economy, central bank
-
The fact that investors around the world are turning to gold is remarkable. Unlike a bond, stored gold offers no yield and, unlike a stock, gold provides no leverage to the performance of an enterprise. Buying gold is not an investment per se, compared, for example, to buying a gold mining stock, where...
Posted to
Hera
by
Ron Hera
on
Fri, Nov 13 2009
Filed under:
Filed under: Federal reserve, US dollar, inflation, Asia, USDX, Gold, IMF, Bretton Woods, ETF, USGS, US economy, gold lease, SDR, GFMS, central bank, CBGA, LBMA
-
The end of the de facto petrodollar standard has profound and lasting implications for the US dollar, oil, and gold. The US is the epicenter of the global financial crisis and economic downturn, but the US continues to exercise disproportionate control of the oil trade and to enjoy the unique status...
Posted to
Hera
by
Ron Hera
on
Fri, Oct 23 2009
Filed under:
Filed under: Federal reserve, US dollar, Asia, Asian Tigers, USDX, Oil, central banks, G20, BRIC, China, petrodollar, Gold, natural resources, GNX, money supply, WTIC, IMF, OPEC, Bretton Woods
-
The US economy has been in crisis since 2008 and despite optimistic statements by officials and commentators there are no fundamental signs that the crisis will end in the foreseeable future. Current economic data suggests a number of diverging and unsustainable trends. The US economy has suffered a...