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Banking, Money,
Finance
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States (14)
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Europe (1)
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and Central Europe (1)
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Asia and the Indian Subcontinent (1)
Global
- How
Much Money?
Source: The
Freeman/FEE
Author: Bettina Bien
Greaves
Country: United States
- Greaves examines whether we need more money or just
increased purchasing power.
- Place
Your Bets on Virtual Cash
Source:
Free-Market.Net Media Spotlight
Author: J.D.
Tuccille
Country: United States
E-mail: media@free-market.net
- Why so many are flocking to electronic trade. Tuccille looks
at the mass media treatment of e-cash in this Media Spotlight.
- How
to Return to the Gold Standard
Source: The
Freeman/FEE
Author: Bettina Bien
Greaves
Country: United States
- Different ways for returning to the gold standard.
- Central
Banks, Gold, and the Decline of the Dollar
Source: The Freeman/FEE
Author:
Robert Batemarco
Country: United States
- A historical examination of gold and the U.S. dollar's
decline as compared to other currencies.
- The
Oncoming Monetary Collapse: The Fight for Honest
Money
Source: Foundation for the Advancement
of Monetary Education
Author: Lawrence
Parks
Country: United States
E-mail: lparks@fame.org
- An excellent, easily understood summary of the dangers
inherent in fiat money. Also available in .pdf format.
- Why
the Gold Industry is Being Destroyed and What To Do About
It
Source: Foundation for the Advancement of
Monetary Education
Author: Lawrence
Parks
Country: United States
- A concise, easily understood summary of why banks do not
want money back on a gold standard.
- The
Geodesic Economy
Source: Economic Government
Group
Author: Robert A. Hettinga
Country:
United States
- Some new -- and very interesting -- ideas on alternative
currency.
- IMF
plan hurts nations needing most help
Source:
Mannkal
Author: Ron Manners
Country:
Australia
- The IMF was applauded when it announced that it would
sell-off some of its gold reserves and give the money to the
'poor people of the undeveloped countries' -- a move that
subsequently depressed gold prices and hurt many poor nations
with commodity-based economies. (8/99)
- The
micropolitics of free-market money: A
proposal
Source: Libertarian
Alliance
Author: Antoine Clarke
Country:
United States
- Clarke focuses on the problem of selling the idea of
competing, private currencies to a skeptical audience. (1992)
- Review
of Monetary Evolution, Free Banking, & Economic
Order
Source: Free Nation
Foundation/Formulations
Country: United States
- Steven Horwitz's book is positively reviewed for its
complete treatment of free banking. "It's a great book for any
economist, banker, or investor, if they like thinking
theoretically or if they seek real-world examples of spontaneous
monetary order." (1994/5)
- The
solution
Source: The Freeman
Author:
Murray N. Rothbard
Country: United States
- [M]oney must be returned to the market economy, with all
monetary functions performed within the structure of the rights
of private property and of the free-market economy. (1995)
- How
to save our economy from destruction
Source:
The Freeman
Author: Murray N.
Rothbard
Country: United States
- "To save our economy from destruction and from the eventual
holocaust of run away inflation, we the people must take the
money-supply function back from the government." (11/95)
- Taking
money back
Source: The
Freeman
Author: Murray N. Rothbard
Country:
United States
- "[T]he best way to penetrate the mysteries of the modern
monetary and banking system is to realize that the government
and its central bank act precisely as would a Grand
Counterfeiter, with very similar social and economic effects."
(9/95)
- Financial
liberalization's effect on growth
rates
Source: NCPA
Country: United
States
- Using a large sample of countries since 1980, researchers
from the National Bureau of Economic Research found that
financial liberalization led to a one percent increase on
average in a country's annual growth rate over a five-year
period. (03/15/02)
- Just
say 'No' to 'extortion futures': why buying government bonds is
a bad investment
Source: International Society
for Individual Liberty
Author: James R.
Elwood
Country: United States
- Most people think that buying government bonds is the safest
investment you can make, and that the money is used for
beneficial purposes. The truth is that lending money to
governments causes more harm than good. It leads to higher taxes
and wasteful spending. Also, bondholders almost always lose
money -- and whatever they get comes from taxation, that is,
legal extortion. ISIL pamphlet.
United States
- Does
the Fed fight inflation?
Source: Ludwig von
Mises Institute
Author: Frank
Shostak
Country: United States
- "[R]ather being seen as an inflation fighter, the FED should
be regarded as the sole source of inflation." (5/18/00)
- What
Every American Citizen Should Know about
Money
Source: NORFED
Country: United
States
- Brief introduction to various monetary and banking concepts.
- Notable
quotes on money
Source: Foundation for the
Advancement of Monetary Education
Country: United
States
- A collection of interesting quotes pertaining to money and
various banking and government practices that adversely affect
its worth.
- When
Will the Bubble Burst?
Source: The Jefferson
School
Author: George Reisman
Country:
United States
- In this online article, Reisman provides a
free-market-oriented analysis of the current stock market boom.
(8/99)
- The
Crash of 1929: Could It Happen Again?
Source:
Mackinac Center
Author: Lawrence W.
Reed
Country: United States
- Unwise government policies, not stock market shifts, are the
culprits that lead to widespread economic distress. (10/4/99)
- A
new legal currency backed by pure
silver
Source: NORFED
Country:
United States
- Describes NORFED's silver-backed currency and its purpose in
issuing the new money.
- Rothbard
on Greenspan
Source: Ludwig von Mises
Institute
Author: Murray Rothbard
Country:
United States
- In two commentaries, the late Murray Rothbard criticized
Alan Greenspan's insufficient respect for free markets and
adherence to behind-the-scenes central planning. (8/97)
- Small
business, the Fed, and access to
capital
Source: Small Business Survival
Committee
Author: Raymond J.
Keating
Country: United States
E-mail: rkeat614@aol.com
- Low short-term interest rates, which are set by the Federal
Reserve, are important to small businesses, whose growth is
dependent on their access to capital from commercial banks.
(12/14/00)
- How
the U.S. suppressed competing
currencies
Source: NCPA/Economic
Inquiry
Country: United States
- The U.S. had currency competition until a Civil War tax
drove state banks out of the business. (01/15/01)
- How
the fed controls the money base
Source:
NCPA
Country: United States
- "While the world anxiously awaits the Federal Reserve
Board's next move on the discount rate, which is a benchmark for
other interest rates, economist Arthur B. Laffer points out that
the true source of the Fed's economic power is not in the
setting of interest rates, but in its control of the monetary
base." (03/27/01)
- The
rise of the state and the decline of
coins
Source: Strike the
Root
Author: Jacob Halbrooks
Country: United
States
- "The history of a country is well reflected in the history
of its coins ... The coins that are used now are practically
worthless, and most people would not even bother to pick up a
penny on the ground. It is quite fitting then that the only
coins now to depict Liberty are minted by private
organizations." (05/31/02)
- Bye
bye banking
Source: Backwoods
Home
Author: Claire Wolfe
Country: United
States
- "... under federal law, banks serve governments more than
they serve us. They routinely transmit our account data to the
IRS. They report any transactions that involve 'too much' cash
or don’t fit some statistical norm. They turn our records over
to law enforcers without court orders, and even collect snitch
fees when their reports result in seizure of our assets."
(01/02)
- Thief
of America's gold
Source: Strike the
Root
Author: Patrick Chkoreff
Country:
United States
- "FDR ... had no more legal authority to do what he did than
my immigrant grandfather had. But that never stopped a president
from doing anything to consolidate and maintain power. As a
betrayer of the Constitution, FDR ranks right up there with
Lincoln, LBJ and Nixon." (03/01/02)
- The
birth of legal counterfeiting
Source: Strike
the Root
Author: George F. Smith
Country:
United States
- "Statists have long prized and fueled crisis as the means
for enlarging government ... It was crisis that helped launch
one of the greatest destroyers of our world, the Federal Reserve
System." (05/21/02)
Western Europe
- The
languishing Euro
Source:
www.sennholz.com
Author: Hans F.
Sennholz
Country: United States
- By classical criteria one would expect the euro to rise --
yet it's falling. This article links this to the harsh measures
against the black market that were included in the European
currency reform; these measures push people to exchange the old
Euro-currencies for dollars. He suggests the gold standard as
the cure. (05/22/01)
Eastern and Central Europe
- Governmental
money -- a market paradox
Source: Lithuanian
Free Market Institute
Author: Ruta
Vainiene
Country: Lithuania
- The Lithuanian currency, litas, is pegged to the U.S.
dollar. The falling of the Euro in 2000 has caused exporters to
want it to be pegged to the euro instead. But whatever direction
is taken regarding the one government currency, it won't satisfy
everyone. "To resolve the problems posed by today's currencies,
money should be returned to where it evolved and where it
belongs -- the market." (2000)
East Asia and the Indian Subcontinent
- Denationalizing
money
Source: MOER
Author: Nizam
Ahmad
Country: Bangladesh
E-mail: nizam@moer.org
- Governments use money as a way to tax people through
inflation. The gold standard and private money would bring a
freer, better economy. This article describes a plan for a
transition to this ideal through competing state and private
money systems. (5/98)
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