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January 29, 2012: Gold Standard Technical Operating Discussions 3: Automaticity Vs. Discretion
January 26, 2012: Gold Standard Vs. a Commodity Basket Standard
January 19, 2012: What is "Stable Value"?
January 15, 2012: Gold Standard Technical Operating Discussions 2: More Variations
January 12, 2012: The Future of the Financial System 2: Leaner and Smaller
January 8, 2012: Some Gold Standand Technical Operating Discussions
January 3, 2012: The End of the Keynesian Era
January 1, 2012: Economics Without Statistics

December 29, 2011: What Should the Financial System Look Like?
December 25, 2011: Life Without Cars: 2011 Edition
December 16, 2011: Economic Management Without Keynesianism
December 8, 2011: Let's Meet the Keynesians
December 4, 2011: The Diminishing Returns of Heroic Materialism 2: End of the Line
December 1, 2011: What is Money?
November 27, 2011: The End of the 1970s Gold Bull
November 20, 2011: More on Fixing the Banks
November 17, 2011: My Thoughts on Lewis Lehrman's Gold Standard
November 13, 2011: Recapitalizing Banks with a Debt/Equity Swap
November 10, 2011: There Are Only Three Ways To Reinstate a Gold Standard
November 6, 2011: Let's Take a Traditional City Break 5: Stuff That Works
November 3, 2011: The Supply and Demand for Gold
November 1, 2011: Interview With GoldMoney
October 30, 2011: The Diminishing Returns of Heroic Materialism
October 28, 2011: Rick Perry's Flat Tax Plan
October 24, 2011: Europe's Economic Crisis Is Not A Euro Crisis
October 23, 2011: Are TBTF Banks Unnecessary?
October 16, 2011: Heritage Conference on a Stable Dollar
October 13, 2011: Flat Tax vs. Fair Tax vs. the 999 Plan
October 1, 2011: Utah Monetary Conference
September 30, 2011: It's Morning In Albania
September 25, 2011: Let's Take a Traditional City Break 4: Many Variations, One Theme
September 23, 2011: A Debt/Equity Swap To Recapitalize European Banks: A Real World Example
September 18, 2011: U.S. Balance of Payments During the 19th Century
September 15, 2011: How to Run a Central Bank with a Gold Standard
September 11, 2011: A Brief History of the British Pound
September 8, 2011: Gold and the Trade Deficit
September 1, 2011: How To Fix Europe's Problems Without Taxpayer Money
August 21, 2011: How To Make A Pile of Dough With the Traditional City 6: Better Than a Thousand Words
August 14, 2011: Thoughts On The Recently Completed Debt-Ceiling Agreement
August 14, 2011: Book Notes: Imperial Spain, 1469-1716, by J. H. Elliot
August 7, 2011: Watch How They Steal The Money
August 5, 2011: One Path to a Global Gold Standard
July 31, 2011: How To Make a Pile of Dough With the Traditional City 5: The New New Suburbanism
July 28, 2011: Making Change: The Simplest Practical Gold Standard System
July 24, 2011: The Capital/Labor Ratio 2: How to Create Jobs
July 22, 2011: Is a Gold Standard "Deflationary"?
July 17, 2011: How To Make A Pile of Dough With the Traditional City 4: More SFDR/SFAR Solutions
July 14, 2011: Democrats Want a Tax Cut. Take It!
July 10, 2011: The Occult Technology of Power
July 7, 2011: The Trauma of Bretton Woods
July 3, 2011: The New World Economics Guide to Men's Fashion
June 30, 2011: What Is "Stable Money"?
June 24, 2011: The Euro Currency Vs. The Eurozone
June 19, 2011: Information on Central Bank Gold Holdings
June 17, 2011: Tim Pawlenty's Growth Vision
June 12, 2011: How to Make a Pile of Dough with the Traditional City 3: Single Family Detached in the Traditional City Style
June 9, 2011: How Germany Went Back To Gold
June 5, 2011: Gold Is Stable In Value 4: More Commodities Prices, and Commodity Baskets
June 2, 2011: The Currency "Trilemma"
May 29, 2011: Gold Is Stable In Value 3: Production and Supply
May 27, 2011: A Currency "Linked To," "Redeemable In," and "Backed By" Gold
May 20, 2011: If The Gold Standard Is So Great, Why Aren't We On One Now?
May 15, 2011: How to Make a Pile of Dough with the Traditional City 2: A Ski Resort Village
May 13, 2011: What is the Purpose of the Euro?
May 8, 2011: Updating Our Commodity Charts
May 6, 2011: The "100% Reserve" Myth
May 1, 2011: Let's Take a Traditional City Break 3: Life With Really Narrow Streets
April 29, 2011: What Is the Purpose of a Gold Standard?
April 24, 2011: Russia Today
April 21, 2011: The Economics of Big Budget Cuts
April 17, 2011: Gold is Stable in Value 2: Interest Rates
April 10, 2011: Gold is Stable in Value
April 8, 2011: Different Kinds of Gold Standards
April 3, 2011: Let's Take a Trip to the Skinniest House in New York
March 31, 2011: The Importance of Value
March 26, 2011: The Persistence of the Bizarre
March 25, 2011: In Praise of Progressivity
March 20, 2011: Let's Take a Trip to Julianne Moore's House
March 17, 2011: How Britain and the U.S. Escaped Their Debt Load
March 13, 2011: Bank Reserves 2: Reserves Out the Wazoo
March 11, 2011: A Currency Board Linked to Gold
March 6, 2011: Bank Reserves
February 27, 2011: Changes in Base Money Demand in Germany
February 26, 2011: The Astonishing Genius of Men in Tights
February 25, 2011: The Problem With Unions
February 20, 2011: Demand for Base Money and Interest Rates
February 13, 2011: Let's Take a Traditional City Break 2: More Really Narrow Streets Than You Can Shake a Stick At
February 6, 2011: Let's Take a Traditional City Break
February 3, 2011: Where Did Floating Currencies Come From?
January 30, 2011: Italy With the Gold Standard 1861-1914
January 27, 2011: What Is a Gold Standard?
January 23, 2011: The Gold Standard in Britain 1778-1844
January 16, 2011: The Composition of U.S. Currency
January 15, 2011: The Cheapest Thing on Earth
January 12, 2011: Moving Toward 21st Century Capitalism
January 9, 2011: The "Money Supply" With a Gold Standard 2: 1880-1970
January 2, 2011: The "Money Supply" With a Gold Standard

December 26, 2010: Gold Mania. And Then What?
December 19, 2010: Life Without Cars: 2010 Edition
December 15, 2010: The Biggest Obstacle
December 12, 2010: Typical Bureaucratic Strategy
December 5, 2010: The End of the Keynesian Experiment
November 28, 2010: Super Glass-Steagall
November 21, 2010: Crisis Management: What's Europe To Do?
November 14, 2010: The International Viewpoint
November 7, 2010: Japan 2010: Can't Get Out of Their Rut
October 31, 2010: Gold Has Never Been (and Never Will Be) In A Bubble
October 24, 2010: Let's Kick Around Pretty Much Everybody
October 17, 2010: The Problem of Scarcity 3: Resource Scarcity
October 10, 2010: Learning from Germany
October 3, 2010: Let's Kick Around the New Urbanists
September 26, 2010: Question About Japan
September 19, 2010: The Service Economy 2: It's Already Here
September 12, 2010: the Gold:Silver Ratio
September 5, 2010: Stable Money
August 29, 2010: Winter is Here

August 22, 2010: How to Make a Pile of Dough with the Traditional City

August 15, 2010: Book Notes: This Time Is Different, by Carment Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff
August 8, 2010: Paul Ryan's Roadmap for America's Future
August 1, 2010: The Problem With Bicycles
July 25, 2010: The Argument for a Gold Standard (2010 edition)
June 27, 2010: U.S. Tax Hikes of the 1930s
June 24, 2010: Stimulus, Austerity, and the Spiral of Decline
June 21, 2010: What Happened to the Middle Class?
June 21, 2010: The Deadly Cycle of "Stimulus" and "Austerity"
June 9, 2010: The Coming Keynesian Catastrophe
June 6, 2010: Transitioning to the Traditional City 2: Pooh-poohing the Naysayers
May 30, 2010: The Flat Tax in Russia
May 23, 2010: Transitioning to the Traditional City
May 16, 2010: The Service Economy
May 9, 2010: The Two Santa Claus Theory
May 2, 2010: Thoughts on Greece
April 25, 2010: Greenspan, Summers, Tungsten Fakes, and the Secret Gold Standard
April 18, 2010: How to Live the Good Life in the Traditional City
April 12, 2010: How to Buy Real Gold
April 11, 2010: Interpreting Gold and Currencies in an Environment of Official Intervention
April 4, 2010: The Problem With Little Teeny Farms 2: How Many Acres Can Sustain a Family?
March 31, 2010: It's Ponzimonium in the Gold Market
March 28, 2010: The Problem With Little Teeny Farms
March 23, 2010: China Vs. U.S.: Clashing Monetary Paradigms
March 21, 2010: A New Gold Parity
March 17, 2010: What's the Chinese Word for Baloney?
March 14, 2010: The Traditional City: Bringing It All Together
March 7, 2010: Let's Take a Trip to Suburban Hell
March 9, 2010: Ancient Economic Wisdom Still Applies Today
February 28, 2010: A Gold Standard is a Value Peg
February 21, 2010: Toledo, Spain or Toledo, Ohio?
February 19, 2010: The Problem with the Euro
February 14, 2010: The Problem with Greece
February 7, 2010: Ibn Khaldun, Taxes, and the Rise and Fall of Empires
January 31, 2010: Let's Take a Trip to New York 2: The Bad and the Ugly

January 24, 2010: Let's Take a Trip to New York City

January 17, 2010: The Futility of Raising Taxes

January 13, 2010: How to Create Jobs

January 10, 2010: We Could All Be Wizards

January 3, 2010: The GLD Standard


December 27, 2009: What a Real Train System Looks Like

December 20, 2009: Updating Our Commodity Charts

December 13, 2009: Life Without Cars: 2009 Edition

December 6, 2009: In the Long Run, We Are All Dead

November 29, 2009: Capitalism: the State of the Art

November 22, 2009: What Comes After Heroic Materialism?

November 15, 2009: Let's Kick Around Carfree.com

November 8, 2009: The Future Stinks

November 6, 2009: A Brief History of the Dollar
November 1, 2009: Japan's New Government

October 27, 2009: What If We Abolished the Federal Reserve?

October 18, 2009: Let's Take Another Trip to Venice

October 10, 2009: Place and Non-Place

October 9, 2009: New Highs for Gold
September 28, 2009: Let's Take a Trip to Barcelona

September 25, 2009: Does Hong Kong Have the World's Best Health Care System?

September 23, 2009: What $1000+ Gold Means To You
September 20, 2009: The Problem of Scarcity 2: It's All In Your Head

September 13, 2009: The Problem of Scarcity

September 7, 2009: The Treasury's Funding Problem
August 30, 2009: Summer Slack-Off 3: How To Have Fun
August 23, 2009: BOGO Sunday

August 16, 2009: Healthcare Reform Conservatives Could Love

August 16, 2009: Summer Slack-Off 2: Raw Food Diet

August 9, 2009: Recommended book: For Good and Evil -- the Impact of Taxes on the Course of Civilization

July 26, 2009: Let's Take a Trip to an American Village 3: How the Suburbs Came to Be

July 19, 2009: Let's Take a Trip to an American Village 2: Downtown

July 12, 2009: Let's Take a Trip to an American Village

July 6, 2009: How to Establish an International Currency

June 28, 2009: Inflation Vs. Hyperinflation

June 26, 2009: Where's the Gold?
June 21, 2009: Summer Slack-Off 1: Headphone Audio

June 15, 2009: Bashing "Supply Side Economics" 2: Maybe We Don't Want Growth?

June 5, 2009: Bashing "Supply Side Economics"

May 31, 2009: Getting More Depressing All the Time

May 26, 2009: The Japan Baloney

May 24, 2009: Bernanke's "Making Sure IT Doesn't Happen Here" Speech

May 17, 2009: Negative Interest Rates

May 10, 2009: Updating our Commodity (and other) Charts

May 3, 2009: A Bazillion Windmills

April 26, 2009: Two Monetary Paradigms

April 19, 2009: Let's Kick Around the "Sustainability" Types

April 5, 2009: A Different Kind of Gold Standard

March 29, 2009: A New World Monetary System

March 22, 2009: Time for Action

March 8, 2009: Capitalism Vs. Socialism

March 3, 2009: Let's Visit Some More Villages

February 22, 2009: Public Works Done Right
February 15, 2009: Let's Take a Trip to the French Village
February 8, 2009: "Nationalizing" the Banks

February 1, 2009: Let's Take a Trip to the English Village

January 25, 2009: How to Buy Gold on the Comex

January 18, 2009: "Austerity" and "Stimulus" 2.0

January 4, 2009: Currency Management for Little Countries

December 28, 2008: Currencies are Causes, not Effects

December 21, 2008: Life Without Cars

December 14, 2008: Causes of the Bust

December 9, 2008: Preventing Bubbles

November 30, 2008: Quantitative Easing

November 24, 2008: Russia's Currency Crisis

November 23, 2008: Redeemability and Reserves

November 16, 2008: How To Stabilize the Ruble

November 10, 2008: "Austerity"

November 2, 2008: "Stimulus"

October 27, 2008: Making Currencies that Last

October 26, 2008: Too Much Borrowing Vs. Not Enough Borrowing

October 19, 2008: Keeping Warm for (Almost) Free

October 12, 2008: Effective Bank Recapitalization 2: Three Examples

October 5, 2008: Effective Bank Recapitalization

September 28, 2008: Every Crisis is Like All the Others

September 21, 2008: The "Lowering Interest Rates" Boondoggle

September 14, 2008: Depression Economics

September 3, 2008: The Battle for Investment Survival
September 1, 2008: How the Fed Works

August 24, 2008: Five Audio Systems

August 10, 2008: Visions of Future Cities

August 5, 2008: Tax Cuts are the Solution to Everything

July 28, 2008: "Why Not the Gold Standard?"

July 20, 2008: The Traditional City Vs. The "Radiant City"

July 14, 2008: What To Do About the Poor People

July 7, 2008: Obama's Tax Plan

July 2, 2008: The Volcker Myth
July 1, 2008: Privatize the Profits. Socialize the Losses.

June 22, 2008: The Inflationary Adjustment Process

June 17, 2008: More Commodity Charts

June 6, 2008: Updating Our Commodity Charts

June 2, 2008: World Without Paper Money

May 24, 2008: Japan: Silly Self-Destructive Behavior

May 18, 2008: Japan: Tax Hikes are No Fun

May 11, 2008: Japan: Now What Are We Going To Do?

May 9, 2008: The Gulf's Currency Solution
May 6, 2008: The Key to Managing Currencies
May 5, 2008: What Is the U.S. Economy?

April 21, 2008: Japan -- WTF is Going On Here?!?

April 13, 2008: This Is So Not Like Japan

April 6, 2008: Liquidationists vs. Interventionists

March 30, 2008: The Capital/Labor Ratio

March 23, 2008: How Banks Work 7: the Lender of Last Resort

March 16, 2008: How Banks Work 6: Liquidy Crises and Bank Runs

March 9, 2008: How Banks Work 5: Selling Loans

March 6, 2008: Worse Than 1973
March 2, 2008: Investing in Gold and Silver

February 24, 2008: How Banks Work 4: Banks and the Economy

February 19, 2008: Nowhere to Hide
February 17, 2008: How Banks Work 3: More Elephant Poop

February 10, 2008: How Banks Work 2: Shitting Like an Elephant

February 3, 2008: How Banks Work

January 27, 2008: Crisis Management

January 13, 2008: Valuing Gold

January 6, 2008: Investing in 2008

December 16, 2007: Liquidity and Solvency
December 9, 2007: Updating Our Commodity Charts

December 2, 2007: Let's Take a Trip to Tokyo

November 24, 2007: "Printing Money"

November 19, 2007: Bretton Woods II: The Folly of Large Gold Reserves

November 11, 2007: The London Gold Pool I and II (and a David Frum-bashing contest!)

November 4, 2007: What if China began a gold standard tomorrow?

October 28, 2007: Can We Still Avoid Inflation?

October 21, 2007: The "Money Multiplier"

October 14, 2007: Say's Law

October 7, 2007: Let's Take a Trip to Venice

September 30, 2007: Taxes and Money

Septenber 23, 2007: The Greenspan Gold Standard

September 2, 2007: Different Kinds of "Money"

August 26, 2007: How To Operate a Gold Standard

August 19, 2007: Gold Standard Fallacies

August 12, 2007: The Credit Boom-Bust Cycle

August 5, 2007: What Happened to the Greenspan Put?

July 22, 2007: Whip Inflation Now
July 15, 2007: Give Yourself the Gift of Music
July 9, 2007: No Growth Economics
June 30, 2007: East Europe's Flat Tax Revolution
June 24, 2007: The Gold Standard in a Nutshell

June 17, 2007: Recipe for Florence

May 26, 2007: 450 Miles Per Gallon
May 21, 2007: Ron Paul or Mike Gravel for President
May 11, 2007: The Inflation Has Already Begun
April 21, 2007: Weights and Measures
April 15, 2007: The Value of Today's Dollars in 1854 Dollars
April 9, 2007: How Far Down For Housing Values?
April 1, 2007: Commodities in the 1970s
March 25, 2007: The Next Gold Standard
March 11, 2007: Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth
March 4, 2007: The Less-Oil Economy
February 24, 2007: The Real Prices of Commodities 3: Bits n Pieces
February 17, 2007: The Real Prices of Commodities 2: Grains
February 10, 2007: The Real Prices of Commodities
February 3, 2007: Peak Oil Is Fun
January 27, 2007: Inflationary Recessions 2: Nobody Goes Bust In An Inflation
January 20, 2007: Not a Bear Among Them
January 10, 2007: Inflationary Recessions, Deflationary Recessions (and 'Flationary Recessions)

December 25, 2006: The End of the 1972 Bull Market
December 17, 2006: John Stuart Mill on Public Works Spending
December 10, 2006: The Magic Formula
December 3, 2006: The Future of Farming
November 5, 2006: Understanding Gold's Movements
October 22, 2006: The Car of the Future (Is Here Today!)
October 8, 2006: Macro Investing 3: The Principle of Compound Interest
October 2, 2006: Macro Investing 2: Valuation
September 23, 2006: Macro Investing
September 4, 2006: The Demonetization of Silver
August 27, 2006: "The Cost of Equity"
August 20, 2006: The A B C of Money
August 5, 2006: What is Economics About?
July 30, 2006: Growth and Inflation
July 23, 2006: Why Gold?
July 9, 2006: "Fractional Reserve Banking"
July 1, 2006: "Quantitative Tightening"
June 18, 2006: Fixing the Weak Dollar Problem
June 11, 2006: The Nature of Monetary Manipulation
June 3, 2006: Debt and Inflation Part IV
May 28, 2006: Debt Does Not Cause Inflation Part III
May 21, 2006: Debt does not cause inflation part II
May 14, 2006: Guest Lecture: David Ricardo on Gold at $700+!
May 6, 2006: MV=My Butt
April 30, 2006: Value and Quantity
April 15, 2006: Where the Rothbardians Went Wrong
April 9, 2006: Valuing Real Estate V2.0 (This Time It's Different!)
April 2, 2006: Inflation or Deflation?
March 26, 2006: The Eco-Metropolis
March 19, 2006: How to Value Real Estate
March 12, 2006: The "Sacrifice Ratio"
March 4, 2006: Does Debt Creation Cause Inflation?
February 25, 2006: Let's Dream of a Better World
February 19, 2006: Blowing Bubbles and the Wall of Money
February 4, 2006: Was Greenspan Any Good?
January 29, 2006: Is the Government Budget Deficit a Problem?
January 22, 2006: Does the Current Account Deficit Matter? Part II
January 8, 2006: Does the Current Account Deficit Matter?

December 30, 2005: Is Gold an Investment?
December 17, 2005: The Smoking Gun
December 10, 2005: Ben Bernanke and the Great Depression
December 4, 2005: Interpreting $500 gold
November 26, 2005: The Steering Wheel and Brake Pedal are Disconnected
November 20, 2005: Does "inflation targeting" work?
November 13, 2005: Problems with the Indonesian rupiah