The Fed Prepares for a Bank Crisis While Telling Americans the Economy Is Strong
(Mises)—Last Thursday, Bloomberg reported that federal regulators are preparing a proposal to force US banks to utilize the Federal Reserve’s discount ...
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Ron Paul: Soft Landing or Hard Crash?
(Ron Paul)—A clip from the 1990 movie Home Alone where the lead character purchases groceries, household goods, and toys recently ...
Bank Bailout Program Balance Surges Again in December
(Schiff)—What’s going on with US banks? Over the last month, loans outstanding in the Federal Reserve bank bailout program increased ...
Fed Holds Rates Steady but Signals Big Changes in the New Year
(Daily Caller)—The Federal Reserve announced it would not change its benchmark federal funds rate on Wednesday, keeping the rate at ...
Powell Comments Send Everything Soaring, Gold Hits All Time High, Dollar Plummets as Market Prices in Rate Cuts
(Zero Hedge)—After November's furious meltup, which saw the S&P rise by 9% (the Nasdaq was up an even more ludicrous ...
The Fed Is Draining Our Economy Like Farmers Have Drained Their Aquifers
(Mises)—In an October column, Paul Krugman admonished people who are not all in on the Joe Biden economy and declared ...
Exposing Our Fed-Driven Bubble Economy
The Great Money Bubble: Protect Yourself from the Coming Inflation Storm, by David A. Stockman, Humanix Books, 2022; 229 pp. ...
The Fed Holds the Fed Funds Rate Steady—Because It Doesn’t Know What Else to Do
(Mises)—The Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) on Wednesday left the target policy interest rate (the federal funds rate) ...
Gold Continues to Defy Expectations and Remain Strong Despite the Fed’s Ongoing Weirdness
The gold market is currently trading in a neutral channel around $1,950, but it is well positioned to benefit when ...
The Fed: Harming the Economy for Over a Century
Since its founding in 1913, the unelected central planning bureaucrats at the Federal Reserve have been given the incredible privilege ...