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  • Is Graeber's Debt book accurate or supported by history?

    http://mhpbooks.com/books/debt/?id=308 Claims money was established by kings/states. Denies that barter was the start of money. So far this book has glowing reviews (mostly from socialists) but does anyone who has read it know how accurate his claims are?
    Posted to Economics Questions (Forum) by Freedom4Me73986 on Mon, Oct 17 2011
  • HOW IS THE US GOVERNMENT PAYING OFF THE NATIONAL DEBT

    The US government paying off the national debt by borrowing more money, and/or printing more US bonds and selling them. This is an over simplification, but when these existing US bonds come due, the US government redeems these bonds with US dollars that are raised by selling more freshly printed new...
    Posted to Economics Questions (Forum) by Gerald Spencer on Fri, Mar 12 2010
  • Monetization of Debt

    It's very difficult to find an explicit description of the entire process. I think I understand the story, but I want to run this by you guys to see if you spot any errors: The Process of Monetization of the Debt (1) The US government runs a deficit and borrows money by issuing bonds that must be...
    Posted to Economics Questions (Forum) by RockyRaccoon on Thu, May 21 2009
  • Need Help Understanding Monetary Article

    http://www.moneyandmarkets.com/the-g-20s-secret-debt-solution-27996 As someone who studies Austrian economics I am still very much a rookie especially when it comes to monetary manipulation by governments. This article is someone explaining what he thinks the major governments of the world are up to...
    Posted to Economics Questions (Forum) by FreeXchange on Wed, Nov 19 2008
  • Inflation---->BAD OR GOOD???

    I was having an arguement with this person saying that people have a misconception about inflation because they think that inflation will rob him of his purchasing power of his hard earned money. So that when the prices rises, your dollar will buy fewer goods so it might seem that it lowers living standards...
    Posted to Economics Questions (Forum) by Unikkatel on Fri, May 2 2008
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