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My wife and I save on a regular basis. I personally love the idea of owning precious metals, and do purchase them often. We're throwing around the idea of keeping all or at least most of our cash above our emergency savings in precious metals. On one hand, I can see a huge safety net in converting...
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Foreigners continue purchase these freshly printed paper US Bonds (at a discount from face value or CV) only because these US bonds can be redeemed by purchasing title to privately owned land, hotels, farms, businesses, casinos and other assets that were created by previous generations of US citizens...
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The US government does not really borrow US dollars from US banks to pay for its expenses. The US congress passes laws that authorize Federal Reserve Board (via Chairman Ben Bernanke) to buy some paper and then print a bunch of new interest bearing paper currency instruments in varying amounts with the...
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[quote user="Libertarian_for_Life"] According to Ch. 12 in "Economics in One Lesson", in the scenario in the 2nd paragraph, the British importers pays in pounds, then through exchange or direct buyback, someone in America must buy something from Britian because he can't use the...
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Some have argued that our economy wouldn't have grown as it has were we still on the gold standard. This infers that the economy is a zero sum gain and that the only way to grow is via exports with a trade deficit in our favor. Trade aside, can an economy grow with a fixed supply of money?