How reliable that purchasing power is depends on how well the U.S. economy functions and how the supply of money is managed. Peter Schiff

Inflation is bad, however, because it reduces the dollar’s purchasing power and puts upward pressure on bond rates, which have to factor in inflation protection so that real yields will be attractive to investors. What we need to understand here is that our government has an interest in keeping inflation both secretly high and officially […]

During the nineteenth century, efficiencies made possible by capital investment financed with savings enabled more food to be produced by fewer farm workers. The increased farm productivity freed up labor to make a transition into higher-paying manufacturing jobs similarly created by capital investment financed by savings. The growth in farm productivity that made the industrial […]

The U.S. dollar’s status as the world’s reserve currency has shielded the United States from the consequence of persistent and growing trade imbalances. The Bretton Woods accords made the U.S. dollar the currency used by other governments and institutions to settle their foreign exchange accounts and to transact trade in certain vital commodities, such as […]

However, capital investment can be increased only if adequate savings are available to finance it. Savings, of course, can come into existence only as a result of underconsumption and self-sacrifice. The fatal flaw in the modern economy is that any attempt to save and under consume, which woud surely bring bout a badly needed recession, […]

Put simply, the Chinese economy is one giant Ponzi scheme that depends on new investors to cover the bad debt, mask its weakness, and con the rest of the world. The revenues derived from the Ponzi are used to launder money for the nation’s leaders and well-connected elite. This is what modern-day communism looks like; forget the […]

Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D., An Inconvenient Deception

After many generations of saving, investing, and building a productive capital stock, the marginal productivity of labor is substantially higher than in poor countries. — Just as an economy does not need more money in order to produce more goods and services, an economy does not need more money to have more investment and more […]