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“On the surface it looks like there is deflation on the way. Japan is failing to inflate and China is tightening beca...

  By Detlev Schlichter   While the stance of monetary policy around the world has, on any conceivable mea...

By Michael Is the coming financial collapse going to be inflationary or deflationary? Are we h...

by Philipp Bagus Today's banks are not free-market institutions. They live in a symbiosis with governmen...

By: Peter Cooper, Arabian Money Think Zimbabwe a moment. This is the most recent example of a hyperin...

The Japanese government for the last twenty three years has employed the Keynesian tools of deficit spending and more recently the mone...

[This essay was originally published as "Die Legende von Versagen des Kapitalismus" in Der Internationale Kapitalismus und die ...

By Bill Bonner   When wealth was easy to identify and easy to control — that is, when it was mostly land — a few insiders...

Free markets are not to be blamed for the Great Recession. On the contrary, its origins rest upon the deep government and central bank in...

The “fiscal cliff” is another hoax designed to shift the attention of policymakers, the media, and the attentive public, ...

On December 12th, the Federal Reserve announced the most aggressive program of monetary stimulus ever undertaken in peacetime...

Back in June, we wrote an article titled " On The Verge Of A Historic Inversion In Shadow Banking " in which we sh...

By Detlev Schlichter Every Monday morning the readers of the UK’s Daily Telegraph are treated to a sermo...

By Sheldon Richman ERNEST HEMINGWAY: I am getting to know the rich. MARY COLUM: I think you’ll find the only differen...

by Martin Sibileau About a month ago, in the third-quarter report of a Canadian global macro fund, its strategist made the interestin...

The Austrian School of Economics has prevailed through time given the relevance it has gained in understanding the way markets really...

By Gerardo Coco We face one of the deepest crises in history. A prognosis for the economic future requires a deepening...