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  • Fed Policy Caused Financial Crisis?

    Was the Federal Reserve's monetary policy the proximal cause of the financial crisis of 2007-2008? Also, what are the best free market sources for information and argumentation on this mechanism (e.g. published papers, data, forecasted predictions, etc)?
    Posted to Economics Questions by Austen on Sun, Nov 18 2012
  • Fractional Reserve Banking and Maximizing Liberty

    I understand the rational behind full reserve banking, but would banning fractional reserve banking be right? What if someone wants their money to be lent out with only fractional reserves kept? Wouldn't banning fractional reserves be similar to occupational liscensure or drug prohibition? There...
    Posted to Economics Questions by Prescience500 on Wed, Aug 8 2012
  • Some thoughts on free-market banking

    First of all there are many misinterpretations about what fractional reserve banking actually is. So lets being with sorting out some of our terminology. A lot of people claim fractional reserve banking isn't fraudulent because everyone can agree on it. Well that is just the thing, they can't...
    Posted to Escaping Leviathan by hkarnoldson on Thu, Jun 17 2010
    Filed under: ENGLISH, economics, banking
  • Is Deflation Better?

    http://libertyisnow.blogspot.com/2010/04/is-deflation-better.html Subscribe by Email Is Deflation Better? by Alex Merced I constantly speak about the dangers of inflation (increase in the money supply), and inflationary pressures of a growing government. Inflation destroys our purchasing power, causes...
    Posted to AlexMerced by Alex Merced on Wed, Apr 7 2010
    Filed under: Money, Prices, Economics, Price levels, Money Supply, Arbritage, Investment, Taxation, Risk, Banking, Treasuries, Inflation
  • Treasuries, Investment, Interest Rates, and Risk

    http://libertyisnow.blogspot.com/2010/04/treasuries-investment-interest-rates.html Subscribe by email Treasuries, Investment, Interest Rates, and Risk by Alex Merced In todays world investment revolves around US Treasury debt cause it's AAA rating. Since the return yielded from treasuries is considered...
    Posted to AlexMerced by Alex Merced on Tue, Apr 6 2010
    Filed under: Business Cycle, Taxation, Risk, Banking, Treasuries, Inflation, Interest Rates
  • The Magic of High Powered Money

    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....
    Posted to When in the Course of human events by John Rolstead on Wed, Mar 31 2010
    Filed under: federal reserve, money, banking, macro, fed
  • Washington Cesspool

    Washington Cesspool By Monty Pelerin , posted February 18th, 2010 http://www.economicnoise.com/2010/02/18/washington-cesspool/ Image via Wikipedia Nothing has changed in Washington as evidenced by the Reuters article below. The government is still run by the banking industry. What happened to the good...
    Posted to Monty Pelerin's World by Monty Pelerin on Thu, Feb 18 2010
    Filed under: Volcker, banking
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