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Rep. Thomas Massie Introduces US Gold Reserves Audit Bill

Rep. Thomas Massie Introduces US Gold Reserves Audit Bill

By Adam Dick via Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity | June 06, 2025 The United States government says it has about 261 million troy ounces of gold in its gold reserves. That is rather impressive, if true. The US government is not a great role model for honesty, though.

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Trump The Inflationist: He Wants More Easy Money From The Fed

Trump The Inflationist: He Wants More Easy Money From The Fed

By Ryan McMaken, Mises Wire | April 23, 2025 For a few days during the early weeks of the current Trump administration, it appeared that the Trump team might actually try to rein in the Federal Reserve. Trump and Elon Musk hinted that they would push for an audit of the

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Do Central Bank Interest Rate Cuts Strengthen The Economy?

Do Central Bank Interest Rate Cuts Strengthen The Economy?

By Frank Shostak, Mises Wire | April 14, 2025 According to most commentators, artificially lowering interest rates by the central bank prompts businesses to increase investments in capital goods and the structure of production (e.g., tools, machinery, infrastructure). This is supposed to increase economic growth. In short, artificially lowering interest

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Does The Fed Shave With Occam’s Razor?

Does The Fed Shave With Occam’s Razor?

By George Ford Smith, Mises Wire | April 14, 2025 Imagine being famous for saying something you never said, seven centuries after your death. What has come to be known as Occam’s razor—“entities are not to be multiplied beyond necessity”—has been attributed to English philosopher and theologian William

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Will Trump End The Fed Or Put Himself In Charge Of It?

Will Trump End The Fed Or Put Himself In Charge Of It?

By George Ford Smith, Mises Wire | April 07, 2025 On February 18, 2025 President Trump issued an executive order titled, “Ensuring Accountability for all Agencies,” in which he says, …previous administrations have allowed so-called “independent regulatory agencies” to operate with minimal Presidential supervision. These regulatory agencies currently exercise substantial executive

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Will The World Keep Buying US Treasuries?

Will The World Keep Buying US Treasuries?

By Paola Subacchi & Paul van den Noord - Project Syndicate | Mar 28, 2025 As long as the US dollar remains the world’s key international currency, the convenience yield of holding dollar-denominated assets will likely forestall a large-scale sell-off. But this stability hinges on one crucial assumption: that US

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Federal Reserve Staying The Course … For Now

Federal Reserve Staying The Course … For Now

By Ireland Owens, Daily Caller News Foundation | March 19, 2025 The Federal Reserve announced Wednesday that it would hold its interest rates steady in its second meeting of 2025. The Fed’s decision to maintain its target range at 4.25% to 4.5% met economists’ expectations. The announcement comes

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Too Obvious To See?

Too Obvious To See?

By George Ford Smith, Mises Wire | March 13, 2025 The Trump-Musk assassination troops going through the federal bureaucracy will eventually arrive at an oddball entity called the Federal Reserve. It is and isn’t many things, which if confusion is your sport, is part of its charm. It is an

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The Worst Market Intervention Of All Time

The Worst Market Intervention Of All Time

By George Ford Smith, Mises Wire | March 03, 2025 “An inhabitant of Berlin, who in 1914 would have been jubilant upon receiving an unexpected legacy of 1,000 marks, did not think an amount of 1,000,000,000 marks worth his attention in the fall of 1923.“— Ludwig von

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The Federal Reserve Killed The Penny. Is MAGA Next?

The Federal Reserve Killed The Penny. Is MAGA Next?

By Ron Paul, The Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity | February 24, 2025 President Trump recently issued an executive order instructing the US Mint to stop producing pennies. The reason for this is it costs nearly four cents to produce one penny. That’s right: the US government can’

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The Fed Has Stopped Pretending That Price Inflation Is Going Away

The Fed Has Stopped Pretending That Price Inflation Is Going Away

By Ryan McMaken, Mises Wire | February 15, 2025 At its September 2024 meeting, the Fed’s FOMC cut the target federal funds rate by a historically large 50 basis points and then justified this cut on the grounds that “The Committee has gained greater confidence that inflation is moving sustainably

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Fed Policies Yield Very Bad Things

Fed Policies Yield Very Bad Things

By George Ford Smith, Mises Wire | February 11, 2025 The Fed is in the business of generating inflation. It might attempt to stop the effects of inflation, namely rising prices. But under the old definition of inflation — an artificial increase in the supply of money and credit — the entire reason

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