The Risk That The Economy Has Entered

The Benefit Of Appointing A Hawkish Central Banker Is The Increased Inflation-fighting Credibility That Such An Appointment Brings.

The Crisis And Recession Have Led To Very Low Interest Rates, It Is True, But These Events Have Also Destroyed Jobs, Hamstrung Economic Growth And Led To Sharp Declines In The Values Of Many Homes And Businesses.

It's The Price Of Success: People Start To Think You're Omnipotent.

I Think One Of The Lessons Of The Depression - And This Is Something That Franklin Roosevelt Demonstrated - Was That When Orthodoxy Fails, Then You Need To Try New Things. And He Was Very Willing To Try Unorthodox Approaches When The Orthodox Approach Had Shown That It Was Not Adequate.

Like Gold, U.s. Dollars Have Value Only To The Extent That They Are Strictly Limited In Supply. But The U.s. Government Has A Technology, Called A Printing Press (or, Today, Its Electronic Equivalent), That Allows It To Produce As Many U.s. Dollars As It Wishes At Essentially No Cost. By Increasing The Number Of U.s. Dollars In Circulation, Or Even By Credibly Threatening To Do So, The U.s. Government Can Also Reduce The Value Of A Dollar In Terms Of Goods And Services, Which Is Equivalent To Raising The Prices In Dollars Of Those Goods And Services.