The Gold Standard 

During the last debate, Mitt Romney emphatically stated he would blast China for manipulating its currency the first day he takes office. Talk about priorities. Of all the nation’s pressing issues, the minute the oath is over, he’ll be calling out China for manipulating the yuan.

A remark like that should cause exasperation for anyone in the know. As Mary Anastasia O’Grady writes in The Wall Street Journal, “To be consistent, Mr. Romney should call out the Federal Reserve on day two for engaging in its own currency ma Read more

Jim Grant, founder and editor of Grant’s Interest Rate Observer, recently sat down with Capital Account’s Lauren Lyster to discuss potential LIBOR litigation and why he’s bullish on black walnut trees.

Is there any such thing as the truth? If two people view an incident, chances are you'll get two different versions of that one event. Truth is subjective...open to interpretation, recollection and prejudice. One person's fact is another's fiction.

We raise the topic because Ben Bernanke, Chairman of the US Federal Reserve, is back on the lecture circuit. He recently gave the first of four lectures to the poor kids of George Washington University, giving his version of how the Fed came into existence and what the Fed' Read more

At this week’s hearing on Capitol Hill, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke demonstrated a lack of understanding about what causes inflation. His comments reflected a belief that GDP growth causes inflation.

But true economic growth is production-driven, and adds to the supply of goods and services in the economy. True economic growth is not inflationary. Rather, inflation is driven by runaway government deficits and bloated central bank balance sheets. And right now, we have plenty of both. So we have every reason to expect Read more