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Ex-Fed Insider: Ron Paul Is Right
Well, she did't exactly say that. But this is certainly the only conclusion from Danielle DiMartino Booth, former adviser to the Dallas Fed's, first op-ed for The Liscio Report: The Great Abdication The business cycle is dead! Long live the [...]
Will the Fed take orders from the IMF?
Maybe... International Monetary Fund President Christine Leadgard has some advice for Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen: do not raise interest rates: The International Monetary Fund wants the Federal Reserve to wait until 2016 before it [...]
Leftists economists admit Fed causes income inequality
Economists Gerald Epstein and Juan Antonio Montecino have produced two papers for "The Institute for New Economic Thinking"-- "Have Large Scale Asset Purchases Increased Bank Profits?" and the forthcoming, " The Impact of 'Quantitative Easing' on [...]
FOMC March Minutes
By Zac Nickerson Economists have been all in a buzz since Wednesday due to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve releasing the minutes from their most recent Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting. Reading through the tedious and [...]
Audit the Fed Critic Disputes New York Times
As to what constitutes a bestseller... Former New Hampshire Senator (and Federal Reserve apologist) Judd Gregg had an op-ed in The Hill this week rehashing the same old straw man arguments about Audit the Fed. In the course of attacking the [...]
Which Republicans Haven't Cosponsored Audit the Fed?
In the 111th Congress, every Republican in the House cosponsored Audit the Fed. In the 112th and 113th Congress, every Republican but one voted for Audit the Fed. Rep. Thomas Massie's H.R. 24 currently has 200 cosponsors, but in order to [...]
Economic Placebos
By Zac Nickerson Earlier last week American business magnate Steve Wynn was interviewed on Ralston Live, a show on Nevada’s KNPB Public Television channel 5. World Net Daily (WND) reported on the interview in an informative article which you [...]
RON PAUL: The Real War on the Middle Class
One of the great ironies of American politics is that most politicians who talk about helping the middle class support policies that, by expanding the welfare-warfare state, are harmful to middle-class Americans. Eliminating the welfare-warfare [...]
GOP upset over Fed's (selective) transparency
For an institution that is so opposed to transparency, the Fed is remarkably unconcerned about leaks from whistle blowers. Members of the House Committee on Financial Services Chairman Jeb Hernsarling send a letter to Federal Reserve Chair Janet [...]
Janet Yellen Speaks: Do Words Matter?
For weeks, if not months, investors have been agonizing over whether or not the Fed would remove the word “patient” from its assessment of monetary policy. The word indeed was removed at today’s Fed meeting. Chairman Janet Yellen, [...]