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Okay, I have been thinking this one through and I want all yous guys' thoughts. So the argument goes that until full employment is reached, newly printed money will not cause price inflation as new goods would be produced. Say, 100 people lay around not doing anything, then the government runs off...
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I'm currently reading Currency Wars by James Rickards. In it, he says that one way for a nation to boost its exports is to depreciate its currency by printing money. For example, let's say that the price of a German car is 20,000 marks or 20,000 US dollars. And let's say the exchange rate...
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Here's a story I just wrote to help explain what the Fed's doing to wreck our economy. Please let me know if it helps. Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 The Three Little Pigs and the Federal Reserve Crisis In their later years, they bought a yacht and sailed the seven seas...
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I'm a bit of a soft-core libertarian, and an economist in particular. A lot of reading and discussion I have read has let me with a number of questions regarding the worshipped "gold standard." 1) Gresham's law states that "bad" easy currency will crowd out "good"...
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See Rothbard's What Has Government Done to Our Money . When a regular person buys a government bond, that person is spending money they had to have somehow received beforehand from someone else. That is, it must have been money that was already in circulation. When the Federal Reserve buys government...