International Adventures
Tags: bocconi, currency exchange, economics, euro/dollar, finance, forex, gold standard, Italy, mercantilism, Milano, San Lorenzo Basilica, schedule conflicts, study abroad, travel
September 16, 2009
At 7:30 I woke up for my first class at 8:45 this morning. The weather quickly turned bad and rainy. When I left Switzerland, Milan was hot and humid. Now that I have come back it has switched to being cold and rainy. I went to my first class in a similar room to the [...]
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Finance and Investing / Politics
Tags: Austrian Economics, ben bernanke, end the fed, Federal Reserve bank, finance, gold standard, helicopter be, inflation, money supply, Politics
September 15, 2009
May 6, 2008
Usually when one thinks of the Federal Reserve Board, they believe that the Fed stabilizes the value of our currency and the economy. However, the truth is actually the opposite. Since its inception in 1913, the Fed has nearly erased all of the value of the US dollar, created vicious boom and bust [...]
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