Inflation

• Destroying the Economy
  We are told the unemployment rate is working its way down to 8%. The real unemployment rate is [...]
• America Lost in a Bubble
  No matter how this mad dash to nowhere is spun one thing is certain: all bubbles burst All bubbles burst.  This [...]
• Federal Reserve Worries ‘Fiscal Cliff’ Is as Big a Threat as Europe, Still Voices Call For Quantitative Easing
  Federal Reserve officials are increasingly concerned about the coming “fiscal cliff,” putting it on par with the European financial crisis [...]
• The Bloomberg TV Showdown
  The Bloomberg TV “debate” between Ron Paul and Paul Krugman has created quite a stir on the Internet. The Texas [...]
• Paul vs. Paul: Free-market or Keynesian Economics?
  Small Government vs. the prevailing Big Government economic philosophy of deficit spending, government intervention, and inflationism. In “Paul versus Paul,” [...]
• Krugman and the Austerians
  Paul Krugman, Keynesian extraordinaire, is crowing over the failure of “austerity” in Europe to reverse the economic decline.  He writes [...]
• No Recovery & Bad ‘More Of The Same’ Policy: Federal Reserve Releases FOMC Statement
  Medicating the economy with more bad medicine.  –> Housing Market still depressed. Inflation up. Gas prices up. Yet, the commitment [...]
• Bernanke to Congress: We’re Much Closer to Total Destruction Than You Think
  Official Congressional budget estimates understate the peril of rising debt, Fed chair Ben Bernanke told the Budget Committee on [...]
• Slow Jobs Growth Suggests More Federal Reserve Quantitative Easing To Come
  NEW YORK – News of disappointing U.S. job growth in March on Friday renewed bets in the interest rates futures [...]
• Silver as Nullification
  A recurring theme in recent victories for individual liberty has been nullification. While the mainstream media steers the public eye [...]
• Ron Paul on Supreme Court healthcare case: ‘I suspect they’re going to rule it constitutional’
  Ron Paul on Monday said that his “big guess” about the Supreme Court’s ruling on the constitutionality of the controversial [...]
• Fed Chairman says Central Bank not Responsible for Housing Bubble
  Optimists call it a great recession, while realists call it a depression. Our economy — regardless of labels — is [...]
• Inflation Is A Tax And The Federal Reserve Is Taxing The Living Daylights Out Of Us
  Ronald Reagan once famously declared that inflation is a tax, but sadly most Americans did not really grasp what [...]
• Joe Biden: Recovery and Reinvestment Act lived up to its name
  The following is Vice President Joseph Biden’s opinion on the Obama Administration’s Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which was signed into [...]
• Fed Should Heed Lessons of 1920 Recession Response
  The U.S. has been “overmedicated” by public policy and should consider the government’s 1920’s response to recession, said James Grant, [...]
• Fed Low Interest Rate Policy Distorts the Economy
  Investors in stocks and longer-term bonds can thank Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke for his new policy of providing [...]
• Paul Capturing Delegates Could Force Fed Changes on Republicans
  Ron Paul, trailing in delegates needed for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, could be positioning himself to force [...]
• 10 Things That Every American Should Know About The Federal Reserve
  What would happen if the Federal Reserve was shut down permanently?  That is a question that CNBC asked recently, [...]
• Sen. DeMint: Why Republicans Must Become More Libertarian
  “The new debate in the Republican party needs to be between conservatives and libertarians,” says Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.). “A [...]
• The Federal Reserve’s Crony Capitalism
  The Federal Reserve’s decision to release forecasts for short-term interest rates is supposed to clarify monetary policy and reassure [...]
• Gold climbs to 8-week high as stocks rise
  The precious metal has risen nearly 12 percent this year, supported by the Federal Reserve’s announcement that it [...]
• The Federal Reserve’s Commitment to Unstable, Political Money
  Bernanke speaks and gold prices jump. On Wednesday The Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee announced its plans to promote “maximum [...]
• Biden: Obama has been working with GOP to cut deficits, grow middle class
  Vice President Joe Biden said Wednesday the protracted policy fight between Democrats and Republicans in Washington is “not about bad [...]
• Gas up 83%, Beef 22%, Bacon 22% since Obama Admin
  So far, during the presidency of Barack Obama, the price of a gallon of gasoline has jumped 83 percent, according to [...]
• Rep. Paul: Speech Against Raising the Debt Ceiling Jan 18 2012
   
• Fed vs. ECB: the Impact of Central Banking
  Peter Schiff of EuroPacific Capital and Peter Atwater of Financial Insyghts debate the role of central banking in Europe (European [...]
• Terrible Economics: An American-Funded European Bailout
  AMERICAN TAXPAYERS ARE ABOUT TO BE FORCED TO PROP-UP EUROPEAN ECONOMIES – Do you work hard, sacrifice time with your [...]
• Have You Heard About The 16 Trillion Dollar Bailout The Federal Reserve Handed To The Too Big To Fail Banks?
  What you are about to read should absolutely astound you.  During the last financial crisis, the Federal Reserve secretly [...]
• Bernanke Fails to Take Responsibility for Dismal Outlook
  The Federal Reserve completed another FOMC meeting yesterday, one of eight throughout the year. Most of the statements [...]
• Fed to pause, sow seeds for more easing
  The Federal Reserve could begin to prepare financial markets for further monetary easing at the conclusion of a [...]
• Fed-up protesters rally for visit from Ben Bernanke
  Occupy Boston members want to have a chat with Federal Reserve Bank boss Ben Bernanke, who is due in [...]
• The Fed Twists, The Market Shouts
  Last week the Federal Reserve began the second incarnation of “Operation Twist”, an attempt to drive down interest rates [...]
• Bernanke says ‘we need to make sure that the recovery continues,’ plans to further tamper with economy
  Editor’s Note: Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, while expecting different results. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben [...]
• Hollywood puts Obama on a Thousand Dollar Bank Note
  As some of you may know, Fox recently premiered its new Jurassic Park-ish sci-fi program Terra Nova. Considering the fact that [...]
• Monopoly Money and Federal Reserve Notes side by side — you won’t believe it
  Someone at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing has a sick sense of humor… and the joke’s on you. [...]
• GOP Letter is soft on Bernanke and the Fed
  The Federal Reserve — the private, non-government entity that prints our dollars and had its start in 1913 — has [...]
• Wall Street again looks to the Fed to ‘bolster growth’
  Treasury yields plummeted for much of August amid a wild rush of buying, as Europe’s debt crisis worsened and [...]
• The Federal Reserve’s Flawed Approach To Monetary Policy
  After two rounds of quantitative easing, unemployment is still above 9% while annual CPI inflation stands at 3.6%. [...]
• Manipulating Money Supply Is Like Lying about Cholesterol
  Would you lend money to a friend if you thought that there was a good chance that you’d not get [...]
• Dollar Tumbles on Fed’s Rate Pledge; Swiss Franc Soars the Most Since 1971
  The dollar tumbled the most in 40 years against the Swiss franc after the Federal Reserve pledged to keep its [...]
• Stocks Fall, Gold Hits Record on Debt Concern
  U.S. stocks slid, pulling the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index down from a two-week high, and European equities [...]
• Economic Woes Mount Under Obama
  Two-and-a-half years of Obamanomics has crippled the U.S. economy with massive deficit spending, high gas prices, a crumbling [...]
• Newt Gingrich Turns Against the Federal Reserve
  Ron Paul used to be the only one railing against the U.S. central banking system. Now it’s a focus of [...]
• Bernanke’s Posturing Ignores Inflation Reality and Hurts Americans
  In a recent article discussing the effects of “quantitative easing,” I remarked that the “Federal Reserve has laid the [...]
• Audit the Fed Reloaded: Ron Paul and Rand Paul Introduce HR 459 and S 202
  RONPAUL.COM Congressman Ron Paul [yesterday] introduced HR 459, The Federal Reserve Transparency Act of 2011 (also known as [...]