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How Ron Paul Aided And Abetted An Expanded Fed Regular readers of Alt-M don't need to be told that yours truly is no fan of the Fed's gigantic credit footprint. Even before the recent crisis, he lamented both the extent to which the Fed had switched from regulating this nation's short-term money market to being its short-term money market, and the switch to an abundant reserve or "floor" operating system that made a bigger Fed footprint inevitable. Please share this article - Go to very top of page, right hand side, for social media buttons. By the time the Great Recession ended, the Fed's ...

“We want to see American citizens pay higher prices for milk, butter, eggs, bread, and toilet paper. To reach our goal, we will adjust monetary policy to make these goods and other goods and services more expensive in the future.” How long before mobs storm the Mariner Eccles building (Fed headquarters) if Jerome Powell were to make such a statement? Is our mock proclamation that different from Powell’s comment on 12/16/2020: “W ith inflation running persistently below 2%, we will aim to achieve inflation moderately above 2% for some time so that inflation average is 2% over time and ...

big important ones, ones that i think we've all been grappling with, and you've written a very short book about. i think without diving straight into central issues -- >> it's much harder to write a short book that a long book. i mean that. this is the shortest book i've written and it was the hardest to write. it's like a haiku. trying to boil things down. but i think that per page i get to read much more than ever before. [laughter] >> well, we are at the end of the historic financial crisis, at least we hope we're at the end. most americans don't understand the complexities of wha...

[ closing bell ringing ] and it is 4:00 on wall street. do you know where your money is? hi, everybody. welcome back to the "closing bell." i'm maria bartiromo on the floor of the new york stock exchange. we've got a market today that traded higher toward the end of the day. it's where traders are all awaiting the kickoff to earnings season. alcoa moments away from reporting its fourth quarter results. today in fact marks the beginning of a very critical time for wall street and investors. today's quarterly numbers from the company will certainly help set the tone for the stock mark...