Will Reishman, September 20, 2006:
"Hedgers at the Margin "
The U.S. financial system is undergoing a profoundly unprecedented Monetary Disorder. This is the understanding one gains from a steady diet of the insights of Mr. Doug Noland, the chronicler of The Credit Bubble Bulletin found Friday evenings at www.prudentbear.com.
The primitive paper money system of John Law, the later calamity of the Great Weimar inflation, and all previous fiat monetary regimes have been trumped and are being trumped again in this era of Wildcat Speculative Finance. The successive waves of money madness on which the American, and now even world economy are riding, were nurtured by recently departed Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan, a catastrophe now continued by his successor, Mr. Ben Bernanke...Read More >>

Will Reishman, May 19, 2005:
"Save Us From the Moneymen"
As the leader whose presumed neglect or incompetence allowed the American boom of the 1920’s to plunge into the depths of depression, Herbert Hoover is not known for his economic insight. But based on a few thoughtful passages from his memoirs that may be an unfair assumption...Read More >>

Will Reishman, May 4, 2005:
"Transparent Quicksand"
With all the mock rapt attention directed to the hush-hush-what’s-the-Fed-going-to-say statement that followed the ¼% rate hike Tuesday, there was a puzzling ending to the affair that says a lot about what’s really happening on Planet Wall Street...Read More >>

Will Reishman, Apr. 6, 2005:
"The Hirelings Are Running the World"
With corporate scandals, accounting fraud and the like in the headlines again, allow me to share a bit of my personal understanding of what’s at the root of all this. Other than, of course, the fallen condition of sinful humanity, a prime cause of corporate corruption is that the U.S. financial system is founded upon dishonest money, originating with the institution of the Federal Reserve in 1913...Read More >>