How Much Money Inflation?
Howard S. Katz, 07/01/2009
The Federal Reserve is lying about the nation's money supply (M1). The current figure for money supply is being given as $1.6 trillion. The actual number is $2.34 trillion. The reported number is equivalent to an increase of 16% over the past...Read More >>

Not Your Father's, Mother's or Second Cousin's
(Once Removed) Deflation  Fleckenstein  [Excerpt] 06/30/2009
Readers know where I stand on the inflation/deflation debate. But that does not stop gallons of ink from being spilled by the media and tons of questions from pouring into Ask Fleck. In the latest issue of Grant's, Jim makes important points...Read More >>

Inflation: What You See and What You Don’t See
Thorsten Polleit, 06/30/2009
…[B]y misleading public opinion it [inflation] makes possible the continued existence of a system of government that would have no hope of the consent of the people if the circumstances were clearly laid before them. In an attempt to...Read More >>

Surviving Hyperinflation: An Update
Eric Englund, 06/29/2009
In the early 1980s, Harry E. Figgie, Jr. (the founder of Figgie International, Inc.) became concerned that the United States’ government was following the same destructive path that lead countries such as Argentina, Bolivia and...Read More >>

It is Economic
Doug Noland, 06/26/2009
Greenspan: "I don’t think it’s an economic problem; I think it’s a political problem..."Noland: Mr. Greenspan is, again, wrong. It is very much an "economic problem." It is the nature of protracted Credit Bubbles to impart deleterious effects...Read More >>

Die Hard Illusions
Bill Bonner, 06/26/2009
This just in...Ben Bernanke and Tim Geithner have rushed to Los Angeles. If they can revive an entire world economy...why not the 'King of Pop?' Fans are hopeful...but here at The Daily Reckoning we take a discouraging view of these revival...Read More >>

Washington Is Unable to Call All the Shots
Michael Hudson, 06/15/2009
Challenging the American empire will be the focus of meetings in Yekaterinburg, Russia, today and tomorrow for Chinese President Hu Jintao, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and other leaders of the six-nation Shanghai Co-operation...Read More >>

No Practical Means of Draining Quantitative Easing
Jim Sinclair, 06/22/2009
Those that discount inflation, as many are doing today, because of the unlikely nature of demand pull caused inflation are economic ignoramuses. I agree there will be little if any meaningful demand pull caused inflation. Inflation this time is...Read More >>

Is This the Death of the Dollar?
Edmund Conway, 06/20/2009
After two smugglers were stopped last week with what at first appeared to be $134 billion in US state bonds, the tension and paranoia surrounding the fate of the dollar hit a new high. Border guards in Chiasso see plenty of smugglers...Read More >>