Not Your Average Financial Podcast™

Episode 266: The Federal Reserve vs. Your Fractal Reserve

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In this episode, we ask:

  • What is the average retirement age for many Americans now?
  • Are people retiring later?
  • What is the average income and average net worth of these Americans?
  • How much?
  • What or who is the wizard behind the curtain?

    • Thanks to Tom Woods and the many historians and economists I cite in this episode!

    • What was the original job of the Federal Reserve?
    • What does flexible mean in the context of currency and the Federal Reserve?
    • What are shadow economics?
    • What happened in December of 1913?
    • What has happened with inflation?
    • How was the Fed originally created?
    • Would you like to hear Episode 56?
    • Are we now in a better place?
    • What did Christina Romer discover?
    • What about the frequency, length and duration of recessions?
    • What about price stability?
    • What about deflation?
    • What about output volatility?
    • What did Richard Timberlake say about monetary history?
    • What happened in the 19th century?
    • What about the gold standard?
    • What about the bank panic of 1819?
    • What was Thomas Jefferson’s plan?
    • What about the panic of 1873?
    • What about the gilded age?
    • How was life different for people born in 1860 vs. 1890?
    • How did prices drop?
    • How did America transform?
    • When was the gold standard restored?
    • What was unit banking?
    • How did the farming calendar affect the bank?
    • What about artificial fragility?
    • How was Canada different?
    • Could the U.S. have avoided bank panics?
    • What did Milton Friedman say?
    • Was the Fed successful at stopping bank panics?
    • What about deposit insurance in 1934?
    • …How many banking panics?!
    • Was the Fed not prepared to handle it?
    • What is the Cantillon effect?
    • How does money creation affect people differently?
    • Where are the top 5 wealthiest counties in the U.S.?
    • What about moral hazard?
    • Should prices fall?
    • What about goods and services?
    • What do banks create?
    • What about fractional reserve notes?
    • What about savers?
    • What about losing out due to inflation?
    • What about investments?
    • What about holding on to your cash?
    • What about maintaining your purchasing power?
    • Is this working?
    • How do we escape the boiling pot?
    • How might you take steps to increase your own money supply?
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