Monetary Theory

An individual who earns more money per week is obviously in a position to spend more in buying consumers' goods than is an individual who earns less money per week. For example, a man who makes $1,000 per week has the ability to spend $1,000 per week, while a man who makes only $900 per week has...

Everybody worries about inflation these days. It's chic. It's trendy. And it gives me a great comeback to the boss at raise time. "Congrats, Roberts, you're getting a 3% increase."

"Yeah, I just about keep up with inflation," I reply with that snippy look that bosses hate. A smart alecky...

Here's a question for you. What's funnier: we buffoons who make up the cast of investors, brokers, kibitzers, commentators who produce the daily theatrical Sitcom called the US stock market, or Saturday Nite Live? I vote for us, if comedy is valued over drama.

Like this past Tuesday. Ms....

To answer a reader question, I revisited Rothbard's transition plan for 100% gold. This is cut and pasted from the Mystery of Banking (Richardson and Synder, 1983), pp. 265-267.

Even though, for the past few...