Who Needs the Fed? (eBook)

What Taylor Swift, Uber, and Robots Tell Us About Money, Credit, and Why We Should Abolish America's Central Bank

John Tamny (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2016
224 Seiten
Encounter Books (Verlag)
978-1-59403-832-7 (ISBN)

Infos

The Federal Reserve is one of the most disliked entities in the United States at present, right alongside the IRS. Americans despise the Fed, but theyre also generally a bit confused as to why they distrust our central bank.Their animus is reasonable, though, because the Feds most famous functiontargeting the Fed funds rateis totally backwards. John Tamny explains this backwardness in terms of a Taylor Swift concert followed by a ride home with Uber.In modern times, he points out, the notion of credit has been perverted, so that most people believe its money and that the supply of it can therefore be increased. This false notion has aggrandized the Fed with power that it cant possibly use wisely. The contrast between the grinding poverty of Baltimore and the abundance of Silicon Valley helps illustrate the problem, along with stories about Donald Trump, Robert Downey Jr., Jim Harbaugh (the Michigan football coach), and robots.Who Needs the Fed? makes a sober case against the Federal Reserve by explaining what credit really is, and why the Feds existence is inimical to its creation. Readers will come away entertained, much more knowledgeable, and prepared to argue that the Fed is merely superfluous on its best days but perilous on its worst.

Autor

John Tamny is the Political Economy editor at Forbes, editor of RealClearMarkets, a senior economic adviser to Toreador Research & Trading, and a senior economic fellow at Reason Foundation. He is a weekly panelist on Forbes on Fox, and his columns have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Investor's Business Daily, National Review, the Financial Times, and London’s Daily Telegraph. His first book was Popular Economics: What the Rolling Stones, Downton Abbey, and LeBron James Can Teach You about Economics. Tamny and his wife, Kendall, live in Washington, D.C.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.5.2016
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Wirtschaftsrecht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Finanzierung
• Themenwelt: Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Spezielle Betriebswirtschaftslehre ► Bankbetriebslehre
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
• ISBN-10: 1-59403-832-5 / 1594038325
• ISBN-13: 978-1-59403-832-7 / 9781594038327