Tag: fractional reserve banking

Denninger’s House

13 Nov 2009 by Anthony in Articles, Economics

One of the virtues of being a generalist is the ease with which one can often detect a con. While the specialist examines the bark of a single tree, the generalist sees the forest for the trees. The generalist’s overall knowledge of surrounding area often gives him vital clues, even before any specialized investigation begins. [...]

Why the Ideal Money Supply is of a FIXED and Arbitrary Quantity and Why Fractional Reserve Banking is Always and Forever Fraud

14 Apr 2009 by Lisa in Articles, Economics, Politics

This post is again inspired by an article from The Freeman, the magazine for the Foundation for Economic Education. In thinking about it now, I imagine that today I would disagree on some level with a great many of the articles published in the Freeman over the years. Some ideas are more distressing than others, [...]