Cryptocurrencies have a glittering appeal for anyone looking to escape the control of central banks. Are they fool's gold?

By pushing more government-sponsored loans, Fannie and Freddie are feeding the already runaway house price inflation.

There is plenty of risk and uncertainty that might give rise to our next financial crisis.

We do not have to follow the fatally flawed housing policies of the Johnson, Clinton and Bush administrations.

On August 15, 1971, President Nixon put the economic and financial world into a new era.

Are not high inflation and depreciation, both of currency and of government debt, implicit defaults?

Increases going forward would be consistent with history.

Perhaps inside every macroeconomist is a philosopher-king trying to get out?

The cycle of sovereign borrowing, default, and new borrowing has a long and continuing history.

Bernanke, Geithner, and Paulson tell their story: "For all our crisis experience, we failed to anticipate the worst crisis of our lifetimes."

Although they are monetary and economic experts, do central banks have the requisite knowledge to succeed?

Central banks usually feel the urge to pretend to know more than they can, in order to inspire “confidence” in themselves.

Both banks and governments often make big mistakes at forecasting the economic and financial future.

There are no financial philosopher-kings and there can never be any, in central banks or anywhere else.

Modern central banks keep attempting to manipulate prices to a different and “better” outcome than the market would provide, but what does this achieve?

Innovation offers the greatest engine for growth the world has ever seen, but why do so few people realize how good we have it?

Adair Turner's account of financial markets is insightful but misunderstands the role of the state in creating financial crises.

Is the Federal Reserve a philosopher king or servant of the treasury?