This week in Congress: financial reform. Regional Fed presidents from Dallas, St. Louis, and Kansas City oppose the Obama administration.
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Coffee with Joe 6-7-10: The Haircut
Toxic assets (financial derivatives based on sub-prime and other mortgages) have never been marked down to their true value (mark-to-market). Joe suggests that it is time for some haircuts, and that the sovereign governments should be the barbers, as part of the exit strategy from the broken debt-money system.
Seigniorage, by Eric Zencey
My friend, Eric Zencey, has just posted this outstanding article at George Mason University’s History News Network: Seigniorage Chances are that unless you’re a total financial policy wonk, you’ve never heard the term “seigniorage.” But you should, because doing the right thing with it could help solve two large and interrelated problems: instability in our [...]
Coffee with Joe 5-10-10; Euro Bailout
Joe decries the bailout reached over the weekend by the IMF, the Fed, and other central banks for putting the well being of the financial institutions and the capital markets ahead of those of the people.
Coffee with Joe 5-3-10; The Neo-Chartalist Counter-Conference
Joe reports on what he learned at last week’s “Fiscal Sustainability Teach-In” in Washington DC, the neo-chartalists response to the Peter G.Peterson Foundation’s Conference across town.
Coffee with Joe 4-26-10, Two Conferences This Week
Wednesday this week in Washington DC, the Peter G. Peterson Foundation hosts a “Fiscal Summit”, and the Neo-Chartalists present a counter-conference “Teach In“. Joe will be attending the latter.
Coffee with Joe 4-24-10, Report from the Minsky Conference
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.
Coffee with Joe 4-8-10: Debt Saturation
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.
Coffee with Joe 3-31-10 von Mises Criticism (Part 3) Inflation
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 year.
Coffee with Joe 7-8-10: State Banking?
by Peter on July 8th, 2010
Filed under: Coffee with Joe, Current Events, History | Tags: Alex Jones, analysis commentary, Bank of North Dakota, Bill Still, Coffee with Joe 7-8-10, Joe Bongiovanni, Kettle Pond Institute for Debt-Free Money, Monetary Reform, Nathan Martin, Nathan's Economic Edge, Prison Planet, Program for Monetary Reform, SwarmUSA, Zarathustra Youtube
Pete thanks Zarathustra for typing up the “Program for Monetary Reform” which was highlighted in last week’s Coffee with Joe. Then the conversation moves to Bill Still’s interview with Alex Jones a few days ago. Bill is a founder of the Greenback monetary reform effort SwarmUSA . He says we need to end private money creation, [...]
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