Archive for April, 2010

Coffee with Joe 4-24-10, Report from the Minsky Conference

by Peter on April 25th, 2010

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Joe attended the Hyman Minsky Conference on the State of the US and World Economies at the Levy Economics Institute in New York City last week.

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Coffee with Joe 4-8-10: Debt Saturation

by Peter on April 8th, 2010

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Joe and Pete discuss the “The Most Important Chart of the Century” at Nathan’s Economic Edge, which shows that each now dollar of debt we take on no longer generates any growth in GDP.

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Coffee with Joe 3-31-10 von Mises Criticism (Part 3) Inflation

by Peter on April 1st, 2010

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The third and final part of Joe and Pete’s rebuttal of “The Dangers of Monetary Reform” on the von Mises blog. A National Monetary Commission would be responsible for seeing that the proper and not excessive amount of money would be created each yea

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Dick Distelhorst’s Rebuttal of Von Mises Criticisms

by Peter on April 1st, 2010

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The AMI’s Dick Distelhorst wrote a lengthy rebuttal in the comment section of the von Mises blog article: The Dangers of Monetary Reform, which we reprint here.

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The Coinage Clause in the Constitution

by Peter on April 1st, 2010

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…an exhaustive review of the “coinage clause” in Article 1 Section 8 which concludes “the money thus “coined” did not need to be metallic. Paper or any other material that Congress selected would suffice.”

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