Debt Ceiling Austerity: A Recipe for Stagnation and National Shame
Posted May 9, 2023
Republicans in Congress are once again insisting on a return to Austerity in exchange for lifting the country’s debt ceiling. Austerity can only lead to
Tag Archives: Government Debt
Unchartered Territory
Posted April 14, 2023
Last year, Total Credit in the United States expanded by $5.1 trillion to $93.5 trillion. Total Credit first exceeded $1 trillion in 1964. Next year it will
Interview: The Perfect Storm, Part Two
Posted August 5, 2022
My new book, The Money Revolution: How To Finance The Next American Century, calls for the US government to fund a very aggressive Investment Program targeting
The Fed Is More Profitable Than Apple
Posted August 20, 2021
The Fed is enormously profitable. In fact, if it were a corporation, the Fed would have been the most profitable corporation in the world last year. Luckily
The Investor’s Podcast Interview: 2021
Posted August 1, 2021
The Implications of Peak Inflation I was recently interviewed by Trey Lockerbie for The Investor’s Podcast. This was an excellent conversation that covers not only the
Credit, Economic Growth and Inflation To Slow
Posted July 9, 2021
Credit growth in the United States has peaked. Since Credit Growth drives Economic Growth, that means economic growth has also peaked. This strongly suggests that Inflation will
Interview on Rich Dad Radio
Posted May 7, 2021
I recently had a great conversation with my friends Robert and Kim Kiyosaki for Rich Dad Radio. So far, this interview has been viewed nearly 250,000
Will The Liquidity Tsunami Continue To Drive Asset Prices Higher?
Posted April 29, 2021
A Liquidity Tsunami is currently driving asset prices to new record highs. In early March, Macro Watch published a video called “Liquidity Tsunami May Push Asset
Speech: How Capitalism Died & Where That Leave Us
Posted April 23, 2021
PLEASE NOTE: The link to the speech did not work when this blog was posted. It has been fixed. Apologies for the inconvenience. RD Capitalism
New Interview: Highly Recommended
Posted April 13, 2021
I was recently interviewed by Patrick Donohoe for The Wealth Standard Podcast. If you want to understand how our economic system evolved into what it
Debt, Credit and Wealth Soared In 2020
Posted April 10, 2021
Total Credit in the United States soared by an astonishing $8 trillion last year to $83.5 Trillion, well above the previous peak increase of $5
What The US Must Learn From Japan
Posted November 27, 2020
The new Macro Watch video compares the Japanese economic policy response to Covid-19 with that of the United States – in terms of its impact on
Stimulus and Your Wealth
Posted October 30, 2020
Household Wealth plunged by a record-breaking $7.2 trillion during the first quarter of 2020. It then recovered all of that and more, $7.6 trillion, during the
Understand Money
Posted October 24, 2020
Monetary Policy is the US government’s most powerful economic policy tool. The Fed is currently creating $120 billion a month and pumping it into the
Bank Reserves Are Irrelevant. QE Works!
Posted October 16, 2020
Many people believe that when the Fed creates money through Quantitative Easing, that that money simply gets stuck in the banks as Bank Reserves and
Dire Consequences Without New Stimulus
Posted October 3, 2020
If Congress fails to pass a new economic rescue bill soon, the United States is likely to experience a new severe economic downturn that could
Interview: Melt Up or Melt Down?
Posted September 6, 2020
I was recently interviewed by Cris Sheridan for Financial Sense Newshour. This was a succinct conversation that addressed many of the issues that most concern
Melt Up? What If The Fed Creates $2 Trillion More By Year End
Posted August 9, 2020
The Fed is likely to create significantly more money during the rest of this year than it has led the market to expect. If it does,
Future Prosperity Depends On Government Debt
Posted July 27, 2020
The most important thing to know about macroeconomics in the 21st Century is that Credit Growth Drives Economic Growth. In the United States, when Total
Yield Curve Control Coming Soon
Posted June 27, 2020
The Fed is likely to adopt Yield Curve Control as its primary policy tool to manage the level of interest rates in the United States. The