Lawrence W. Reed on Backbone America
By admin
Posted in Audio, Radio on 18 December 2009
Stats: 6 views and 2 Comments FEE President Lawrence W. Reed was a guest on Backbone Radio, hosted by John Andrews, on December 6, 2009. Andrews and Reed discussed the President's job summit, the Federal Reserve and myths about the Great Depression. (Download File)
Stealth Expansion of Government Power
By Murray Weidenbaum
Posted in Articles on 20 August 2009
Stats: 28 views and 3 Comments The government of the United States is in the midst of debating major new undertakings, ranging from health care to climate change to energy development to tax reform.  Yet far more fundamental is a basic but stealth shift in national priorities—in the form of a rapid and pervasive expansion of ...
The Gold Standard
By kketel
Posted in 101, Economics on 6 July 2009
Stats: 14 views and No Comments The gold standard is a monetary arrangement whereby the currency in circulation is equivalent to a fixed value of gold. The gold standard was replaced by fiat currency, whereby the government or central bank is ultimately responsible for the value of the money. Until 1971, the U.S. dollar was fixed to the ...
Inflation as Income Distribution
By Sheldon Richman
Posted in The Goal Is Freedom on 9 January 2009
Stats: 269 views and 17 Comments Sheldon Richman is the editor of The Freeman and "In brief," and author of "Fascism" in The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics. The Federal Reserve has been pumping hundreds of billions of newly created dollars into "the economy." Much of that money has been sent to Wall Street to ...


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