Janet Yellen is Right: She Can’t Predict the Future – Article by Ron Paul
Ron Paul May 25, 2015 ****************************** This week I found myself in rare agreement with Janet Yellen when she admitted that her economic predictions are likely to be wrong. Sadly, Yellen...
View ArticleThe Unseen Consequences of Zero-Interest-Rate Policy – Article by...
Ronald-Peter Stöferle August 10, 2015 ****************************** In a dynamic economy, an action not only triggers just one effect, but always an entire series of different consequences. While the...
View ArticleKeeping the Bubble-Boom Going – Article by Thorsten Polleit
Thorsten Polleit August 19, 2015 ****************************** The US Federal Reserve is playing with the idea of raising interest rates, possibly as early as September this year. After a six-year...
View ArticleBlame the Federal Reserve, Not China, for Stock-Market Crash – Article by Ron...
Ron Paul September 6, 2015 ****************************** Following the historic stock-market downturn two weeks ago, many politicians and so-called economic experts rushed to the microphones to...
View ArticleThe Fed Can’t Raise Rates, But Must Pretend It Will – Article by Thorsten...
Thorsten Polleit October 26, 2015 ****************************** Waiting for Godot is a play written by the Irish novelist Samuel B. Beckett in the late 1940s in which two characters, Vladimir and...
View ArticleDoes the Bell Toll for the Fed? – Article by Ron Paul
Ron Paul November 9, 2015 ****************************** Last week Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen hinted that the Federal Reserve Board will increase interest rates at the board’s December...
View ArticleWhy Capitalists Are Repeatedly “Fooled” By Business Cycles – Article by Frank...
Frank Shostak ****************************** According to the Austrian business cycle theory (ABCT) the artificial lowering of interest rates by the central bank leads to a misallocation of resources...
View ArticleWhy Negative Interest Rates Will Fail – Article by Frank Hollenbeck
Frank Hollenbeck ****************************** It is now just a matter of time before the US central bank follows the central banks of Japan, the EU, Denmark, Sweden and Switzerland in setting...
View ArticleChasing 2 Percent Inflation: A Really Bad Idea – Article by John Chapman
John Chapman ****************************** In just two years, inflation targeting (namely, the quest for 2 percent inflation) has gone from the lunatic fringe of economics to mainstream dogma. Much...
View ArticleThe Fed Plans for the Next Crisis – Article by Ron Paul
Ron Paul ****************************** In her recent address at the Jackson Hole monetary policy conference, Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen suggested that the Federal Reserve would raise interest...
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