Category Archives: Free Research

What Ever Happened to the Great Depression Debt?

With the national debt now at $36 trillion, becoming a hot-button issue once again, it’s time to revisit one of my favorite stories. When I was a little kid during the early 1950s, my grandfather used to endlessly rail against President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The WWI veteran, who was mustard-gassed in the trenches of France […]

Looking at the Large Numbers

I friend of mine asked me what the Global Money supply was. I just so happen to know that number. It is around $100 trillion. That includes the world’s total M2 money supply, all the physical cash in circulation, plus deposits, promissory notes, and other liquid money instruments. Writing for The Economist magazine in London […]