The Fed is being urged to be more aggressive in controlling future asset bubbles. Fed governor, Frederic Mishkin, gave a speech May 15th suggesting the Fed should use its regulatory powers "aggressively and pro-actively to limit the threat from future asset price bubbles." The Fed could eliminate...
It was Albert Einstein who stated that the definition of insanity is "doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." After the FED's cutting of interest rates by three-quarters of a point today , those of us wary toward centralized banking and the socialization...
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Veritas
by
zsignal
on Tue, Mar 18 2008
Filed under: federal reserve, business cycle, money, banking, credit, fed
I found a very interesting article today that I feel contains a good analysis of the US current economic situation http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2007/11/the_crash_of_2008.html The author correctly analyzes the situation right, but I completely disagree with him when he says that the failing...
Pat Buchanan's recent attempt to diagnose the sinking dollar demonstrates that ignorance of basic economics is not limited to the left. Buchanan points out the plummeting value of the dollar relative to other currencies and major commodities such as gold ( up 24% this year ) and oil ( up over 50...
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Radical Idealism
by
David V
on Tue, Nov 6 2007
Filed under: protectionism, trade, currency, Fed, isolationism