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What Does the Fed’s Jerome Powell Have Up His Sleeve?
The Real Goal of Fed Policy: Breaking Inflation, the Middle Class or the Bubble Economy?
• December 10, 2022
• 2,600 Words • 90 Comments • Reply
“There is no sense that inflation is coming down,” said Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell at a November 2 press conference, — this despite eight months of aggressive interest rate hikes and “quantitative tightening.” On November 30, the stock market rallied when he said smaller interest rate increases are likely ahead and could start in... Read More
Interest Rate Hikes Will Not Save Us from Inflation
• July 28, 2022
• 2,400 Words • 109 Comments • Reply
Rather than making money harder to get, the U.S. government needs to focus on the other side of the demand vs. supply equation. In prescribing cures for inflation, economists rely on the diagnosis of Nobel laureate Milton Friedman: inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon—too much money chasing too few goods. But that equation... Read More
Achieving Self-Funding Local Sovereignty as Global Food Systems Collapse
• July 9, 2022
• 2,400 Words • 7 Comments • Reply
“Deglobalizing” and “dedollarizing” have been much in the news. Reducing dependence on the global supply chain and the U.S. dollar are trends that are happening not just internationally but locally. In the United States, we have seen movements both for local food independence and to divest from Wall Street banks. The burgeoning cryptocurrency movement is... Read More
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Rather Than Sink Main Street by Raising Interest Rates, the Fed Could Save It. Here’s How.
• February 13, 2022
• 2,400 Words • 102 Comments • Reply
Inflation is plaguing consumer markets, putting pressure on the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates to tighten the money supply. But as Rex Nutting writes in a MarketWatch column titled “Why Interest Rates Aren’t Really the Right Tool to Control Inflation”: It may be heresy to those who think the Fed is all-powerful, but the... Read More
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The Real Antidote to Inflation
Stoking the Fire Without Burning Down the Barn
• December 24, 2021
• 2,400 Words • 154 Comments • Reply
The Fed has options for countering the record inflation the U.S. is facing that are more productive and less risky than raising interest rates. The Federal Reserve is caught between a rock and a hard place. Inflation grew by 6.8% in November, the fastest in 40 years, a trend the Fed has now acknowledged is... Read More
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