New Federal Reserve Charts Page

New Federal Reserve Charts Page

I officially shut down Solidus.Center a year and a half ago, but I’m continuing to pay for the domain and hosting indefinitely because I’m passionate about our cause. Occasionally checking in, I recently made a dedicated Federal Reserve charts page to separate empirical data from commentary. Many of the charts are from the Fed itself. I’ve done my best to explain each chart in plain English.

Seth Mason, Charleston SC

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The Great Immoderation: How the Fed Is Sowing the Next Recession

The Great Immoderation: How the Fed Is Sowing the Next Recession

By David Stockman of David Stockman’s Contra Corner.

In February 2004, Ben Bernanke famously declared the business cycle had been tamed and took a bow on behalf of enlightened monetary management, claiming it was the principal source of this beneficent development. Exactly 55 months later, of course, he terrorized the congressional leadership and a clueless president with the frightening proposition that a Great Depression 2.0 was just around the corner.

As to why he had been so stupendously wrong, Bernanke did not say. Nor did he explain why the brilliantly “stable” US economy had suddenly stumbled to …

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Thomas Sowell: Federal Reserve a “Cancer”

Thomas Sowell: Federal Reserve a “Cancer”

The following interview with economist and Hoover Institution fellow Thomas Sowell is one of the more impactful anti-Federal Reserve videos on the web.

Sowell made three salient points in the interview: 1) The federal government allowed the establishment of the Fed at the behest of elite bankers such as J.P. Morgan. 2) The worst economic crises this nation has faced have been on the Fed’s watch. 3) The Fed doesn’t necessarily have to be replaced with any other institution.

The interview also demonstrated the unfortunate ignorance of the …

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