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Whether the price of gold is seen as a measurement of the value of a precious metal or as a report card on the economic, monetary, and fiscal policies that go into determining the value of the dollar, it’s interesting to think about what the trends, short-term and long-term, may mean.
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JOIN US: In this new book, Forbes Media Chairman and Editor In Chief Steve Forbes explains that today’s wrong-headed monetary policies are setting the stage for a new global economic and social catastrophe that could rival the recent financial crisis and even the horrors of the 1930s.
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Instead of deregulation to reduce unnecessary, stifling regulatory burdens and barriers, as both Carter and Reagan did to such fully documented success, Obama regulates mercilessly as if regulation is cost free to the economy, as the most interventionist President in American history.
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Featured · FIRE
The full bill for Obama’s failed economic policies has yet to arrive. But no such explosion of debt has ever escaped a day of reckoning, and no such monetary surge has ever had a happy ending.
A truly free market economy is one that tends to have the “good deflation,” and we should look forward to it.
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Featured · Health Care · Politics
Earlier this month, President Obama tried to change the subject from Obamacare by pitching some rhetoric on “equality” to rally his Far Left base. Not much thoughtful or helpful is[…]
Economics · Featured · Liberty · Regulation
Inequality is his middle name.
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Featured · Politics · Regulation
President Obama is going to hit his perpetual campaign trail to tell Americans that the economy is turning around and that his policies of the first four years have worked. They have not.
Central banks bought 534.6 tons of gold during 2012, the largest amount in 48 years. Interest is clearly growing in gold as an international monetary asset as more countries have[…]
Auditing the Fed, replacing Fed monetary policy discretion with a mandatory price rule governing policy, even the gold standard, Nobel Laureate Friedreich Hayek pushed the envelope beyond all of these.[…]
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Politics · Taxes
President Obama says that income taxes must be raised on the rich because they don’t pay their fair share. The indisputable facts from official government sources say otherwise. The CBO[…]
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Politics · Taxes
[First published at The American Spectator.] It seems like everyone is piling on my college friend Grover Norquist because they can’t wait to abandon the tax pledge not to raise[…]
John Williams runs the Shadowstats.com Web site, which calculates inflation, gross domestic product, and other economic indicators by measuring them the way the government would have done decades ago. He[…]
In today’s New York Times there is an editorial that takes the supposed masters of money at the Federal Reserve to task for their timidity. It’s an almost boundlessly stupid[…]
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