Our rights should not be reduced to give government more power
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The War Against Cash, Part III
The fight to abolish cash is another attempt to trade liberty for security.
The War Against Cash, Part II
Politicians need less control over our money, not more.
Alternative Currencies Such as Bitcoin Are a Valuable Insurance Policy against Feckless Government
Bad government polices make bitcoin necessary.
The Potentially Big Downside Risks of Easy Money, QE, and Artificially Low Interest Rates
A London central banker was refreshingly candid about the dangers of easy money.
Are Easy-Money Policies an Obstacle to Genuinely Needed Pro-Growth Reforms?
There is good reason to be concerned about economic stagnation.
Can We Envision a World without a Central Bank?
I’ve expressed concern about QE3 and other decisions by the Federal Reserve about monetary policy, but I have also admitted that it’s difficult to know the right monetary policy because it requires having a good idea about both the demand for money and the supply of…
QE3: A Risky Ploy to Solve the Problems of Bad Fiscal Policy with Bad Monetary Policy
For all intents and purposes, Bernanke has said that the Fed is going to relentlessly focus on the variable it can’t control (employment) at the risk of causing bad news for the variable it can control (inflation). Since that hasn’t worked in the past, it presumably…
If We Can’t End the Fed, Can We at Least Subject It to Competition?
Ron Paul has made “End the Fed” a popular slogan, but some people worry that this is a radical untested idea. In part, this is because it is human nature to fear the unknown. But there are plenty of examples of policy reforms that used to be considered radical but are…
The Gold Standard Is a Good System, but Governments Can’t Be Trusted to Operate It Honestly
I’ve linked before to Professor George Selgin’s masterful video on the Federal Reserve’s horrible track record, and I’ve done my own video on the origin of central banking. These types of posts often generate questions about what reforms we should support, and a lot…