Fannie and Freddie Finally Wake Up
Spring is in the air signaling the start of homebuying season. But here in Las Vegas, buyers “are aplenty,” 1st … Read more
Mises
Auto Loans: The Next Debt Bubble?
After nearly a decade of being able to borrow money for next to nothing, interest rates are finally beginning to … Read more
Danielle Dimartino Booth: Inside The Fed
Danielle DiMartino Booth is a former Dallas Fed staffer and author of the new book Fed Up: An Insider’s Take … Read more
Jeff Bezos Got Rich By Giving His Customers What They Want
Last week, founder and CEO of Amazon.com Jeff Bezos surpassed Warren Buffet to become the second richest man in the … Read more
Has Middle Class America Been Fleeced?
Noah Smith, writing in Bloomberg, says that middle class America has indeed been fleeced by our national economic policies. We agree. … Read more
Fannie Mae And Freddie Mac’s New Bubble
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac still have housing blood on their hands from the 2008 financial crash. However, the giant … Read more
Six Graphs that Reveal Big Problems for Student and Auto Loans
Student and auto loan debt via Mises The New York Fed’s most recent household debt report showed ballooning debt and … Read more
The “New Normal” Of Ultra-Low Interest Rates
After nine years of outrageous, unwarranted and irrational monetary policy, some people are taking the current monetary regime as normal … Read more
Yellen The Unsurprising
On Yellen’s Humphrey-Hawkins testimony, the Reuter’s headline says it best: “Fed on course to raise interest rates at an upcoming meeting.” Translation: … Read more
Who Will Be Blamed if the Oroville Dam Fails?
Nowadays, references to the New Orleans flooding of 2005 often speak of the disaster as if Hurricane Katrina was the … Read more
What Will Trump Do About The Central-Bank Cartel?
The US is by far the biggest economy in the world. Its financial markets — be it equity, bonds or … Read more
Donald Trump Is the Least of Latin America’s Worries
Donald Trump’s election has sent the mainstream media and intellectual circles in the United States into complete disarray. Not only … Read more
Federal Spending Grew More Under Bush And Reagan Than Under Obama
Now that 2016 is gone and President Obama is a thing of the past, we can take a look back at … Read more
Introduction To The Austrian School Of Economics
My book, Advanced Introduction to the Austrian School of Economics, is being translated into Korean, and the translator asked me … Read more
Daniel Tarullo Bails
he WSJ is reporting that Daniel Tarullo has submitted a resignation letter and will be departing the Fed Board in early April. This is … Read more