By Steve H. Hanke Given all the attention that the Federal Reserve has garnered for its monetary “stimulus” programs, it’s perplexing to many that the U.S. has been mired in a credit crunch. After all, conventional wisdom tells us that the Fed’s policies, which have lowered interest rates to...

By  Steve H. Hanke This article appeared in the June 2013 issue of Globe Asia.   Money matters — it’s a maxim of Prof. Milton Friedman that I repeat often in my columns. Since the Northern Rock bank run of 2007 — the “opening shot” of the financial crisis — the money...

by Alex Chafuen Before jumps in inflation I used to see articles like this in Argentina.  This piece by Steve Conover appearing in the AEI magazine argues that the “[l]ack of sufficient economic growth is behind most if not all of our fiscal and monetary problems,”  and so printing money...

Ralph Benko writes about increased respect for those who promote an important role for gold in a sound monetary system: “The gold standard, in a new incarnation, quite obviously no longer is a fringe issue.  It has entered the mainstream.  The conservative, libertarian, and Tea Party Republican...

By Alex Newman As trust in the Federal Reserve System and its fiat dollar continues to plummet worldwide, legislation making gold and silver into legal tender was given final approval by Arizona lawmakers on Monday when the Republican-led state House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly in favor of...