Showing posts with label gold standard. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gold standard. Show all posts
Thursday, April 4, 2024

Andrew Sullivan, the Cicero of the republic of gay, finally observes that the empire of transqueer means to abolish him . . . and biological sex for everyone

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From his essay here :   [Judith] Butler and the TQ+ movement are trapped by their logic into being homophobic: they have to deny that gay me...
Saturday, October 8, 2022

The percentage holding full-time jobs through September 2022 held above 50%, disappointing the ubiquitous advocates of a Fed interest rate pivot

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 Full time as a percentage of civilian population in September was 50.3%, and for 2022 through September averaged 50.15%. Not bad, consideri...
Friday, July 29, 2022

America and its people have added over $12 trillion to their total credit market debt outstanding just since 2019, but that has done little but stall the decline of debt growth

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The $90 trillion millstone: We did it to ourselves . We are now in the future we tapped in the past for the prosperity of "debt draws f...
Friday, November 30, 2018

Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina sinks confirmation of Thomas Farr to US District Court in this congress, but cocaine Mitch may have another plan

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Sen. Tim Scott announces opposition to judicial nominee Thomas Farr, effectively dooming confirmation : South Carolina Republican Sen. ...
Sunday, February 19, 2017

Nathan Lewis thinks pretty highly of Judy Shelton's book on the gold standard

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Here : Today, the Federal Reserve, with the blessing of Congress, large banks, and many others, has embarked on an open-ended policy...
Wednesday, September 28, 2016

Commerce Secretary in April 2016 can't understand Hillary's flip-flop on TPP

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Here : PENNY PRITZKER: I don't understand that conclusion. Because frankly, having looked at this agreement, studied this agreemen...

Hillary's lyin' again: "This TPP sets the gold standard in free trade agreements"

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In 2012, here . 9/26/16: DONALD TRUMP You called it the gold standard. You call it the gold standard of trade deals. HILLARY C...
Sunday, September 7, 2014

Richard Duncan gets creditism wrong three ways

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Richard Duncan gets creditism wrong three ways here  for The Daily Reckoning last July in "Creditism and the Threat of a New Depression...
Tuesday, August 19, 2014

Gold bug Ralph Benko thinks Richard Nixon had to resign over the closing of the gold window!

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I like Ralph Benko. Ralph Benko often makes important arguments on behalf of the gold standard. But when he tries to force everything in the...
Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Since 1967 The US Dollar Currency Index Average Is 97.76, But 120 Remains The Gold Standard Benchmark

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The US Dollar Currency Index benchmark is really 120 since that is the level which prevailed before the closing of the gold window in 1971, ...
Friday, July 12, 2013

How A Good Central Banker Is Supposed To Behave

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not like this under Greenspan and Bernanke David Merkel, here : A good central bank fights the politics of the nation of which it is a part ...
Sunday, May 19, 2013

Inflation Year Over Year April Is 1.06%: Bob Brinker Thinks That's Great!

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Here's a news flash for you: At 1% inflation it will take about 69 years to halve the value of your money. I said halve it. To many peop...
Friday, April 19, 2013

Louis Woodhill: Gold As Money Is Inevitably Deflationary In Terms Of Its Supply

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So says Louis Woodhill for Forbes,  here : "The most fundamental issue that determines the workability of a gold standard is whether it...
Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Barry Ritholtz Is Against The World Religion Of Gold

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Barry Ritholtz here  recently had some fun with the goldbugs, whom he ridicules as devotees of a "religious cult". The piece is re...
Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Forbes: The Fed Is The Most Hypocritical, Thieving, Incompetent Bank In The Country

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Richard Salsman for Forbes here savages the thieving, incompetent US Federal Reserve for its utter hypocrisy in keeping comparatively well-...
Friday, December 28, 2012

Consumer Prices Up 8.4% Under Four Years Of Obama

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The Consumer Price Index is up 8.4% under four years of Obama (November 2008 to November 2012). Similarly measured, the CPI rose 10.05% in ...
Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Returning To The Gold Standard, But At What Price?

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John Tamny argues here  for the ten year average price of about $800 the ounce, against Nathan Lewis who would prefer something closer to th...
Friday, February 25, 2011

Gold's Gift: Stable, Long-Term, Low Interest Rates

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In Great Britain thanks to John Locke and William of Orange, as discussed here  by Nathan Lewis. The gold standard: The sine qua non for ...
Monday, January 17, 2011

NY Times Paints Loughner and Hard Money Libertarianism as Right Wing Extreme

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The leftist ridicule offensive continues, designed to preoccupy the opposition and get the right fighting amongst themselves over who belong...