The Sins of Our Fathers: Interest and the National Debt

By |2022-01-07T14:36:35-06:00January 20th, 2016|Categories: Economics, Featured, Federal Reserve, Government, Politics|

We got away with increasing the national debt exponentially in a very short time because of a low-interest rate environment. But are you willing to bet that interest rates will always be rock-bottom? If you’re a young American, welcome to your inheritance. According to the United States Treasury, the total national debt is $18.2 trillion. [...]

The National Debt: Betraying Our Ancestors & Our Children

By |2016-01-16T13:01:00-06:00December 14th, 2015|Categories: Bruce Frohnen, Economics, Featured, Federal Reserve, Government, Political Economy|

The national debt has surged more than half a trillion dollars in the last three weeks, as the suspension of the debt ceiling in late October has allowed the government to borrow as much as it wants. — Report in The Washington Examiner America’s national debt is approaching $19 trillion, and has surged over the least [...]

Legal Realism and ’Public Choice’ Economics

By |2019-08-27T17:13:04-05:00November 20th, 2014|Categories: Brian Domitrovic, Federal Reserve|

The musty old document that supposedly governs this country, the Constitution of the United States put into practice way back in 1789, makes no provision for the governmental institution that has proven the most influential of our time: the Federal Reserve. About the only clause in the whole multi-page document that might even remotely pertain [...]

Bernanke Channels Nixon, Revives “We’re All Keynesians Now!”

By |2014-01-13T15:36:27-06:00October 4th, 2012|Categories: Brian Domitrovic, Economics, Federal Reserve, Political Economy|

At the famous Federal Reserve confab at Jackson Hole, Wyoming, Chairman Ben Bernanke laid the groundwork for Quantitative Easing III. He couldn’t contain himself about how well the first two versions of the big Fed asset-purchase program had turned out over the last few years—unemployment is down from the peak and all that. Bernanke even [...]

Romney’s 400 Economists Made One Big Whiff

By |2014-01-24T10:05:38-06:00September 14th, 2012|Categories: Brian Domitrovic, Economics, Federal Reserve, Gold Standard, Mitt Romney, Political Economy|

Mitt Romney A group of top economists, among them any number of Nobel laureates, signed a letter endorsing Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s economic plan. These economists indicated that as president, Romney would do six salutary things. Romney would reduce taxes, control spending, limit and improve regulation, make social security and Medicare sustainable, [...]

The Fed’s Monetary Policy Has Been Too Tight, But Not In The Way You Think

By |2014-01-13T15:52:50-06:00August 23rd, 2012|Categories: Brian Domitrovic, Economics, Federal Reserve, Political Economy|

If there’s one thing we can be sure of ever since this Great Recession hit four years ago, shortly after we got sated on the Beijing Olympics in late summer 2008, one verity, it is that the money supply has gone up ever since. Way up. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is known far and [...]

Chairman Bernanke Buries the Phillips Curve: Bravo!

By |2013-12-20T11:22:34-06:00April 9th, 2012|Categories: Brian Domitrovic, Economics, Federal Reserve, Political Economy|

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has been taking a lot of flak for his series of speeches at George Washington University over the last few weeks. Commentators have marveled at his mischaracterization of the gold standard and his defensiveness at the suggestion that loose Fed monetary policy of the early and mid-2000s played a role [...]

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