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May
13, 2012: The "Gold Exchange Standard"
May
10, 2012: The Gold Standard System: Why and How?
May
6, 2012: The Social Security System of the Future
May
6, 2012: Japan 2012
April
28, 2012: Central Bankers Don't Know What They're Doing:
They're Faking It
April
22, 2012: How to Make a Pile of Dough With the Traditional
City 8: Shared Parking
April
15, 2012: Foreign Exchange Rates 1914-1941
April
12, 2012: Keynesian "Easy Money" Is Nothing But Currency
Devaluation
April
4, 2012: The Gold Standard and "Balanced Trade"
April
1, 2012: Did the Gold Standard Cause the Great Depression?
April
1, 2012: How To Make a Pile of Dough With the Traditional City
7: Let's Bulldoze a Big Box Shopping Center
March
25, 2012: The U.S. Dollar During WWI and the Recession of 1920
March
22, 2012: Ben Bernanke on the Gold Standard
March
16, 2012: $100 Per Blender
March
4, 2012: U.S. Current Accounts and Bullion Flows, 1821-1900
March
1, 2012: Oil Continues to Rise Because the Dollar Continues to
Fall
February
26,
2012:
The 1890s
February
23,
2012:
The "Crisis of Capitalism" Is a Lack of Capitalism
February
19,
2012: The Debt Supercycle: A First Look
February
16, 2012: The Gold Standard and the Myth of Money Growth
February
12,
2012: The Warren Pearson Index
February
9,
2012:
What Is the Best Type of Gold Standard System?
February
3, 2012: Let's Dream a Dream for Greece
January
29, 2012: Gold Standard Technical Operating Discussions 3:
Automaticity Vs. Discretion
January
26, 2012: Gold Standard Vs. a Commodity Basket Standard
January
19,
2012:
What
is "Stable Value"?
January
15,
2012:
Gold Standard Technical Operating Discussions 2: More
Variations
January
12,
2012:
The Future of the Financial System 2: Leaner and Smaller
January
8,
2012: Some Gold Standand Technical Operating Discussions
January
3,
2012:
The End of the Keynesian Era
January
1, 2012: Economics Without Statistics
December
29, 2011: What Should the Financial System Look Like?
December
25, 2011: Life Without Cars: 2011 Edition
December
16, 2011: Economic Management Without Keynesianism
December
8, 2011: Let's Meet the Keynesians
December
4, 2011: The Diminishing Returns of Heroic Materialism 2: End
of the Line
December
1, 2011: What is Money?
November
27,
2011: The End of the 1970s Gold Bull
November
20, 2011: More on Fixing the Banks
November
17, 2011: My Thoughts on Lewis Lehrman's Gold Standard
November
13,
2011: Recapitalizing Banks with a Debt/Equity Swap
November
10,
2011: There Are Only Three Ways To Reinstate a Gold Standard
November
6, 2011: Let's Take a Traditional City Break 5: Stuff That
Works
November
3, 2011: The Supply and Demand for Gold
November
1, 2011: Interview With GoldMoney
October
30, 2011: The Diminishing Returns of Heroic Materialism
October
28, 2011: Rick Perry's Flat Tax Plan
October
24, 2011: Europe's Economic Crisis Is Not A Euro Crisis
October
23, 2011: Are TBTF Banks Unnecessary?
October
16, 2011: Heritage Conference on a Stable Dollar
October
13, 2011: Flat Tax vs. Fair Tax vs. the 999 Plan
October
1, 2011: Utah Monetary Conference
September
30, 2011: It's Morning In Albania
September
25, 2011: Let's Take a Traditional City Break 4: Many
Variations, One Theme
September
23, 2011: A Debt/Equity Swap To Recapitalize European Banks: A
Real World Example
September
18, 2011: U.S. Balance of Payments During the 19th Century
September
15, 2011: How to Run a Central Bank with a Gold Standard
September
11, 2011: A Brief History of the British Pound
September
8, 2011: Gold and the Trade Deficit
September
1, 2011: How To Fix Europe's Problems Without Taxpayer Money
August
21, 2011: How To Make A Pile of Dough With the Traditional
City 6: Better Than a Thousand Words
August
14,
2011: Thoughts On The Recently Completed Debt-Ceiling
Agreement
August
14, 2011: Book Notes: Imperial
Spain, 1469-1716, by J. H. Elliot
August
7, 2011: Watch How They Steal The Money
August
5, 2011: One Path to a Global Gold Standard
July
31,
2011:
How
To
Make a Pile of Dough With the Traditional City 5: The New New
Suburbanism
July
28,
2011:
Making
Change:
The
Simplest Practical Gold Standard System
July
24,
2011:
The
Capital/Labor
Ratio
2:
How
to Create Jobs
July
22, 2011: Is a Gold Standard "Deflationary"?
July
17,
2011:
How
To
Make
A
Pile
of
Dough
With
the
Traditional City 4: More SFDR/SFAR Solutions
July
14, 2011: Democrats Want a Tax Cut. Take It!
July
10, 2011: The Occult Technology of Power
July
7, 2011: The Trauma of Bretton Woods
July
3, 2011: The New World Economics Guide to Men's Fashion
June
30, 2011: What Is "Stable Money"?
June
24, 2011: The Euro Currency Vs. The Eurozone
June
19, 2011: Information on Central Bank Gold Holdings
June
17, 2011: Tim Pawlenty's Growth Vision
June
12, 2011: How to Make a Pile of Dough with the Traditional
City 3: Single Family Detached in the Traditional City Style
June
9, 2011: How Germany Went Back To Gold
June
5, 2011: Gold Is Stable In Value 4: More Commodities Prices,
and Commodity Baskets
June
2, 2011: The Currency "Trilemma"
May
29, 2011: Gold Is Stable In Value 3: Production and Supply
May
27, 2011: A Currency "Linked To," "Redeemable In," and "Backed
By" Gold
May
20, 2011: If The Gold Standard Is So Great, Why Aren't We On
One Now?
May
15, 2011: How to Make a Pile of Dough with the Traditional
City 2: A Ski Resort Village
May
13, 2011: What is the Purpose of the Euro?
May
8, 2011: Updating Our Commodity Charts
May
6, 2011: The "100% Reserve" Myth
May
1, 2011: Let's Take a Traditional City Break 3: Life With
Really Narrow Streets
April
29, 2011: What Is the Purpose of a Gold Standard?
April
24, 2011: Russia Today
April
21, 2011: The Economics of Big Budget Cuts
April
17, 2011: Gold is Stable in Value 2: Interest Rates
April
10, 2011: Gold is Stable in Value
April
8, 2011: Different Kinds of Gold Standards
April
3, 2011: Let's Take a Trip to the Skinniest House in New York
March
31, 2011: The Importance of Value
March
26, 2011: The Persistence of the Bizarre
March
25, 2011: In Praise of Progressivity
March
20, 2011: Let's Take a Trip to Julianne Moore's House
March
17, 2011: How Britain and the U.S. Escaped Their Debt Load
March
13, 2011: Bank Reserves 2: Reserves Out the Wazoo
March
11, 2011: A Currency Board Linked to Gold
March
6, 2011: Bank Reserves
February
27, 2011: Changes in Base Money Demand in Germany
February
26, 2011: The Astonishing Genius of Men in Tights
February
25, 2011: The Problem With Unions
February
20, 2011: Demand for Base Money and Interest Rates
February
13, 2011: Let's Take a Traditional City Break 2: More Really
Narrow Streets Than You Can Shake a Stick At
February
6, 2011: Let's Take a Traditional City Break
February
3, 2011: Where Did Floating Currencies Come From?
January
30, 2011: Italy With the Gold Standard 1861-1914
January
27, 2011: What Is a Gold Standard?
January
23, 2011: The Gold Standard in Britain 1778-1844
January
16, 2011: The Composition of U.S. Currency
January
15, 2011: The Cheapest Thing on Earth
January
12, 2011: Moving Toward 21st Century Capitalism
January
9, 2011: The "Money Supply" With a Gold Standard 2: 1880-1970
January
2, 2011: The "Money Supply" With a Gold Standard
December
26, 2010: Gold Mania. And Then What?
December
19, 2010: Life Without Cars: 2010 Edition
December
15, 2010: The Biggest Obstacle
December
12, 2010: Typical Bureaucratic Strategy
December
5, 2010: The End of the Keynesian Experiment
November
28, 2010: Super Glass-Steagall
November
21, 2010: Crisis Management: What's Europe To Do?
November
14, 2010: The International Viewpoint
November
7, 2010: Japan 2010: Can't Get Out of Their Rut
October
31, 2010: Gold Has Never Been (and Never Will Be) In A Bubble
October
24, 2010: Let's Kick Around Pretty Much Everybody
October
17, 2010: The Problem of Scarcity 3: Resource Scarcity
October
10, 2010: Learning from Germany
October
3, 2010: Let's Kick Around the New Urbanists
September
26, 2010: Question About Japan
September
19, 2010: The Service Economy 2: It's Already Here
September
12, 2010: the Gold:Silver Ratio
September
5, 2010: Stable Money
August 29, 2010: Winter is Here
August 22, 2010: How to Make a Pile of Dough with the
Traditional City
August
15, 2010: Book Notes: This
Time Is Different, by Carment Reinhart and Kenneth
Rogoff
August
8, 2010: Paul Ryan's Roadmap for America's Future
August
1, 2010: The Problem With Bicycles
July
25, 2010: The Argument for a Gold Standard (2010 edition)
June
27, 2010: U.S. Tax Hikes of the 1930s
June
24, 2010: Stimulus, Austerity, and the Spiral of Decline
June
21, 2010: What Happened to the Middle Class?
June
21, 2010: The Deadly Cycle of "Stimulus" and "Austerity"
June
9, 2010: The Coming Keynesian Catastrophe
June
6, 2010: Transitioning to the Traditional City 2: Pooh-poohing
the Naysayers
May
30, 2010: The Flat Tax in Russia
May
23, 2010: Transitioning to the Traditional City
May
16, 2010: The Service Economy
May
9, 2010: The Two Santa Claus Theory
May
2, 2010: Thoughts on Greece
April
25, 2010: Greenspan, Summers, Tungsten Fakes, and the Secret
Gold Standard
April
18, 2010: How to Live the Good Life in the Traditional City
April
12, 2010: How to Buy Real Gold
April
11, 2010: Interpreting Gold and Currencies in an Environment
of Official Intervention
April 4, 2010: The Problem With Little Teeny Farms 2: How Many
Acres Can Sustain a Family?
March
31, 2010: It's Ponzimonium in the Gold Market
March
28, 2010: The Problem With Little Teeny Farms
March
23, 2010: China Vs. U.S.: Clashing Monetary Paradigms
March
21, 2010: A New Gold Parity
March
17, 2010: What's the Chinese Word for Baloney?
March 14, 2010: The Traditional City: Bringing It All Together
March
7, 2010: Let's Take a Trip to Suburban Hell
March
9, 2010: Ancient Economic Wisdom Still Applies Today
February 28, 2010: A Gold Standard is a Value Peg
February
21, 2010: Toledo, Spain or Toledo, Ohio?
February
19, 2010: The Problem with the Euro
February
14, 2010: The Problem with Greece
February
7, 2010: Ibn Khaldun, Taxes, and the Rise and Fall of Empires
January 31, 2010: Let's Take a Trip to New York 2: The Bad and
the Ugly
January 24, 2010: Let's Take a Trip to New York City
January 17, 2010: The Futility of Raising Taxes
January 13, 2010: How to Create Jobs
January 10, 2010: We Could All Be Wizards
January 3, 2010: The GLD Standard
December 27, 2009: What a Real Train System Looks Like
December 20, 2009: Updating Our Commodity Charts
December 13, 2009: Life Without Cars: 2009 Edition
December 6, 2009: In the Long Run, We Are All Dead
November 29, 2009: Capitalism: the State of the Art
November 22, 2009: What Comes After Heroic Materialism?
November 15, 2009: Let's Kick Around Carfree.com
November 8, 2009: The Future Stinks
November
6, 2009: A Brief History of the Dollar
November 1, 2009: Japan's New Government
October 27, 2009: What If We Abolished the Federal Reserve?
October 18, 2009: Let's Take Another Trip to Venice
October 10, 2009: Place and Non-Place
October
9, 2009: New Highs for Gold
September 28, 2009: Let's Take a Trip to Barcelona
September 25, 2009: Does Hong Kong Have the World's Best
Health Care System?
September
23, 2009: What $1000+ Gold Means To You
September 20, 2009: The Problem of Scarcity 2: It's All In
Your Head
September 13, 2009: The Problem of Scarcity
September 7, 2009: The Treasury's Funding Problem
August 30, 2009: Summer Slack-Off 3: How To Have Fun
August 23, 2009: BOGO Sunday
August 16, 2009: Healthcare Reform Conservatives Could Love
August 16, 2009: Summer Slack-Off 2: Raw Food Diet
August 9, 2009: Recommended book: For Good and Evil -- the
Impact of Taxes on the Course of Civilization
July 26, 2009: Let's Take a Trip to an American Village 3: How
the Suburbs Came to Be
July 19, 2009: Let's Take a Trip to an American Village 2:
Downtown
July 12, 2009: Let's Take a Trip to an American Village
July 6, 2009: How to Establish an International Currency
June 28, 2009: Inflation Vs. Hyperinflation
June
26, 2009: Where's the Gold?
June 21, 2009: Summer Slack-Off 1: Headphone Audio
June 15, 2009: Bashing "Supply Side Economics" 2: Maybe We
Don't Want Growth?
June 5, 2009: Bashing "Supply Side Economics"
May 31, 2009: Getting More Depressing All the Time
May 26, 2009: The Japan Baloney
May 24, 2009: Bernanke's "Making Sure IT Doesn't Happen Here"
Speech
May 17, 2009: Negative Interest Rates
May 10, 2009: Updating our Commodity (and other) Charts
May 3, 2009: A Bazillion Windmills
April 26, 2009: Two Monetary Paradigms
April 19, 2009: Let's Kick Around the "Sustainability" Types
April 5, 2009: A Different Kind of Gold Standard
March 29, 2009: A New World Monetary System
March 22, 2009: Time for Action
March 8, 2009: Capitalism Vs. Socialism
March 3, 2009: Let's Visit Some More Villages
February 22, 2009: Public Works Done Right
February 15, 2009: Let's Take a Trip to the French Village
February 8, 2009: "Nationalizing" the Banks
February 1, 2009: Let's Take a Trip to the English Village
January 25, 2009: How to Buy Gold on the Comex
January 18, 2009: "Austerity" and "Stimulus" 2.0
January
4, 2009: Currency Management for Little Countries
December 28, 2008: Currencies are Causes, not Effects
December 21, 2008: Life Without Cars
December 14, 2008: Causes of the Bust
December 9, 2008: Preventing Bubbles
November 30, 2008: Quantitative Easing
November 24, 2008: Russia's Currency Crisis
November 23, 2008: Redeemability and Reserves
November 16, 2008: How To Stabilize the Ruble
November 10, 2008: "Austerity"
November 2, 2008: "Stimulus"
October 27, 2008: Making Currencies that Last
October 26, 2008: Too Much Borrowing Vs. Not Enough Borrowing
October 19, 2008: Keeping Warm for (Almost) Free
October 12, 2008: Effective Bank Recapitalization 2: Three
Examples
October 5, 2008: Effective Bank Recapitalization
September 28, 2008: Every Crisis is Like All the Others
September 21, 2008: The "Lowering Interest Rates" Boondoggle
September 14, 2008: Depression Economics
September
3, 2008: The Battle for Investment Survival
September 1, 2008: How the Fed Works
August 24, 2008: Five Audio Systems
August 10, 2008: Visions of Future Cities
August 5, 2008: Tax Cuts are the Solution to Everything
July 28, 2008: "Why Not the Gold Standard?"
July 20, 2008: The Traditional City Vs. The "Radiant City"
July 14, 2008: What To Do About the Poor People
July 7, 2008: Obama's Tax Plan
July
2, 2008: The Volcker Myth
July 1, 2008: Privatize the Profits. Socialize the Losses.
June 22, 2008: The Inflationary Adjustment Process
June 17, 2008: More Commodity Charts
June 6, 2008: Updating Our Commodity Charts
June 2, 2008: World Without Paper Money
May 24, 2008: Japan: Silly Self-Destructive Behavior
May 18, 2008: Japan: Tax Hikes are No Fun
May 11, 2008: Japan: Now What Are We Going To Do?
May
9, 2008: The Gulf's Currency Solution
May
6, 2008: The Key to Managing Currencies
May 5, 2008: What Is the U.S. Economy?
April 21, 2008: Japan -- WTF is Going On Here?!?
April 13, 2008: This Is So Not Like Japan
April 6, 2008: Liquidationists vs. Interventionists
March 30, 2008: The Capital/Labor Ratio
March 23, 2008: How Banks Work 7: the Lender of Last Resort
March 16, 2008: How Banks Work 6: Liquidy Crises and Bank Runs
March 9, 2008: How Banks Work 5: Selling Loans
March
6, 2008: Worse Than 1973
March 2, 2008: Investing in Gold and Silver
February 24, 2008: How Banks Work 4: Banks and the Economy
February 19, 2008: Nowhere to Hide
February 17, 2008: How Banks Work 3: More Elephant Poop
February 10, 2008: How Banks Work 2: Shitting Like an Elephant
February 3, 2008: How Banks Work
January 27, 2008: Crisis Management
January 13, 2008: Valuing Gold
January
6, 2008: Investing in 2008
December
16, 2007: Liquidity and Solvency
December 9, 2007: Updating Our Commodity Charts
December 2, 2007: Let's Take a Trip to Tokyo
November 24, 2007: "Printing Money"
November 19, 2007: Bretton Woods II: The Folly of Large Gold
Reserves
November 11, 2007: The London Gold Pool I and II (and a David
Frum-bashing contest!)
November 4, 2007: What if China began a gold standard
tomorrow?
October 28, 2007: Can We Still Avoid Inflation?
October 21, 2007: The "Money Multiplier"
October 14, 2007: Say's Law
October 7, 2007: Let's Take a Trip to Venice
September 30, 2007: Taxes and Money
Septenber 23, 2007: The Greenspan Gold Standard
September 2, 2007: Different Kinds of "Money"
August 26, 2007: How To Operate a Gold Standard
August 19, 2007: Gold Standard Fallacies
August 12, 2007: The Credit Boom-Bust Cycle
August 5, 2007: What Happened to the Greenspan Put?
July
22, 2007: Whip Inflation Now
July
15, 2007: Give Yourself the Gift of Music
July
9, 2007: No Growth Economics
June 30, 2007: East Europe's Flat
Tax Revolution
June 24, 2007: The Gold Standard in a Nutshell
June 17, 2007: Recipe for Florence
May
26,
2007: 450 Miles Per Gallon
May
21,
2007: Ron Paul or Mike Gravel for President
May
11,
2007: The Inflation Has Already Begun
April
21, 2007: Weights and Measures
April
15, 2007: The Value of Today's Dollars in 1854 Dollars
April
9, 2007: How Far Down For Housing Values?
April
1, 2007: Commodities in the 1970s
March
25, 2007: The Next Gold Standard
March
11, 2007: Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth
March
4, 2007: The Less-Oil Economy
February
24, 2007: The Real Prices of Commodities 3: Bits n Pieces
February
17, 2007: The Real Prices of Commodities 2: Grains
February
10, 2007: The Real Prices of Commodities
February
3, 2007: Peak Oil Is Fun
January
27, 2007: Inflationary Recessions 2: Nobody Goes Bust In An
Inflation
January
20, 2007: Not a Bear Among Them
January
10, 2007: Inflationary Recessions, Deflationary Recessions
(and 'Flationary Recessions)
December
25, 2006: The End of the 1972 Bull Market
December
17, 2006: John Stuart Mill on Public Works Spending
December
10, 2006: The Magic Formula
December
3, 2006: The Future of Farming
November
5, 2006: Understanding Gold's Movements
October
22, 2006: The Car of the Future (Is Here Today!)
October
8, 2006: Macro Investing 3: The Principle of Compound Interest
October
2, 2006: Macro Investing 2: Valuation
September
23, 2006: Macro Investing
September
4, 2006: The Demonetization of Silver
August
27, 2006: "The Cost of Equity"
August
20, 2006: The A B C of Money
August
5, 2006: What is Economics About?
July
30, 2006: Growth and Inflation
July
23, 2006: Why Gold?
July
9, 2006: "Fractional Reserve Banking"
July
1, 2006: "Quantitative Tightening"
June
18, 2006: Fixing the Weak Dollar Problem
June
11, 2006: The Nature of Monetary Manipulation
June
3, 2006: Debt and Inflation Part IV
May
28,
2006: Debt Does Not Cause Inflation Part III
May
21,
2006: Debt does not cause inflation part II
May
14,
2006: Guest Lecture: David Ricardo on Gold at $700+!
May
6,
2006: MV=My Butt
April
30, 2006: Value and Quantity
April
15, 2006: Where the Rothbardians Went Wrong
April
9, 2006: Valuing Real Estate V2.0 (This Time It's Different!)
April
2, 2006: Inflation or Deflation?
March
26, 2006: The Eco-Metropolis
March
19, 2006: How to Value Real Estate
March
12, 2006: The "Sacrifice Ratio"
March
4, 2006: Does Debt Creation Cause Inflation?
February
25, 2006: Let's Dream of a Better World
February
19, 2006: Blowing Bubbles and the Wall of Money
February
4, 2006: Was Greenspan Any Good?
January
29, 2006: Is the Government Budget Deficit a Problem?
January
22, 2006: Does the Current Account Deficit Matter? Part II
January
8, 2006: Does the Current Account Deficit Matter?
December
30, 2005: Is Gold an Investment?
December
17, 2005: The Smoking Gun
December
10, 2005: Ben Bernanke and the Great Depression
December
4, 2005: Interpreting $500 gold
November
26, 2005: The Steering Wheel and Brake Pedal are Disconnected
November
20, 2005: Does "inflation targeting" work?
November
13, 2005: Problems with the Indonesian rupiah