Popular Economics

On this page you will find all of Professor Antal E. Fekete’s articles on Popular Economics. The series covers his works from 1996 to 2018, including hyperinflation, Austrian economics, the gold and silver standard, as well as fundamental discussions in selected position papers.

2018-02-01

Waiting for Godot

2017-10-25

Timing Hyperflation

2017-06-15

An Appraisal of the Global Monetary System of the 21st Century

2017-03-13

On the So-Called Nuclear Option

2016-12-19

The Dollar May Not Be Beyond Repair and Trump May Be the One to Repair It

2016-05-12

Professor Fekete Interview with Guillermo Barba

2016-05-02

Was Carl Menger Jewish?

2015-07-31

Octandor
The Spontaneous Remonetization of Gold and the Revival of Vanishing World Trade

2015-07-31

Global Gold Interview

2015-04-10

The Spontaneous Remonitization of Gold and the Revival of The Moribund World Trade

2015-01-11

Blowing Up Modern Austrian Economics … in a Good Way

2014-12-2

The Counter-Productive Monetary Policy of the Fed

2014-11-24

How The Fed Bankrupted the Insurance Industry

2014-06-18

The Wisdom of Adam Smith for Our Own Times

2014-04-09

Thank Heaven for Gold Manipulators

2014-04-08

What Constitutes a Money Crank?

2014-03-30

Menger or Mises

2014-03-27

INTERVIEW date: March 26, 2014

2014-03-03

BONDS MAY BE DEFYING DIRE FORECASTS
But They Are Not Defying Logic (Part Two)

2014-03-01

Why Gold Standard?

2014-02-25

From Gold Anchor to Gold Anvil (Videos)

2014-02-14

BONDS MAY BE DEFYING DIRE FORECASTS
But They Are Not Defying Logic (Part One)

2013-12-21

REMINISCENCES OF AN AMATEUR ECONOMIST (1)
My Crusade to Fend off Permanent Gold Backwardation

2013-11-07

Destruction of Capital, Economic Resonance, Hyperdeflation

2013-10-25

New Austrian Economics Manifesto

2013-09-21

Gold Bills Doctrine

2013-07-04

New Austrian Economics Manifesto

2013-05-05

Gold Backwardation and the
Collapse of the Tacoma Bridge

2013-04-18

Who Said The Hydra Would Take It Lying Down

2013-03-08

Interview of the Algerian Journalist Kahina Bencheikh El Hocine with Professor Fekete

2013-01-28

American Bases in Germany and the Gold Basis

2012-11-24

The Silver Saga

2012-06-06

The Gold Problem Revisited*

2012-05-14

There Is No Business Like Bond Business. Still.

2012-04-18

A Footnote to the Wolfson Economics Prize Contest

2012-03-20

The Gold Problem Reviseted*

2012-03-13

How to Ensure the Stability of the New European Currencies?

2012-03-03

Wobbly Anchors or Wobbly Logic?

2012-02-13

A Tale of Two Schools

2012-01-19

Premature Obituaries

2011-12-21

Mainstream Economists’ Monetary Insanity

2011-10-19

What Chinese Unemployment?

2011-09-06

140 Years of Silver Volatility

2011-07-12

You Can’t Eat Gold.
But Can You Eat Real Bills?

2011-07-04

“You Have Never Ever Seen An Elephant Fly”

2011-06-14

The Marginal Utility of Silver

2011-05-14

Sources and Remedies of Financial Instability
Gold Bond: Life-Saver for the U.S. and World Economy

2011-04-11

Hearken to the Sacred Geese of Juno Moneta

2011-04-06

IMPEACH BERNANKE!

2011-04-02

Apology of the Pencil
I, PENCIL

2011-02-10

Position Paper professorfekete #5, February 10, 2011, Silver And Opium

2011-02-07

Position Paper professorfekete #4, February 7, 2011, Chinese Puzzle

2011-01-31

Position Paper professorfekete #3, Jan. 31, 2011, Bring Back, Bring Back, Bring Back My Gold Bond to Me!

2011-01-17

Position Paper professorfekete #2, January 17, 2011,
Stupid Wager or Clever Prestidigitation?

2011-01-11

Position Paper professorfekete #1, January 11, 2011,
Gold and Honey*

2011-01-09

Sound Navigation Requires Sound Measurement

2010-11-01

Position Paper professorfekete #10, November 1, 2010
More Real Bill Fallacies

2010-10-29

Position Paper professorfekete #9, October 29, 2010
Real Bills and Gold

2010-10-27

Position Paper professorfekete #8, October 27,2010
Is There Life After Sudden Death?*

2010-10-06

The Deep Cause of the Great Financial Crisis:
The Peace Diktat of Versailles

2010-09-27

Position Paper professorfekete #7, Sept. 27, 2010
The Donkey In The China Shop

2010-09-24

Remobilize Gold to Save the World Economy!

2010-09-09

position paper professorfekete #6, Sept. 9, 2010.
Where Krugman Went Wrong

2010-07-26

position paper of professorfekete #5, July 26, 2010
Gold Basis Screwed

2010-07-25

position papers of professosrfekete #4, July 25, 2010.
Real Bills Revisited

2010-07-05

position papers of professorfekete #3, July 4, 2010.
Floating Exchange Rates: Scheme to Embezzle the
Dollar Balances of Surplus Countries

2010-06-27

position papers by professorfekete #2, June 27, 2010.
Krugman’s Opium War On China

2010-06-22

Architecture for a New World Financial System

2010-06-06

What you always wanted to know about Gold*

2010-05-12

The New Austrian School of Economics

2010-05-05

position papers of professorfekete #1, May 5, 2010.
HYPERINFLATION OR HYPERDEFLATION?

2010-02-19

Hedging Non-Gold Investments with Gold

2010-02-09

Front-Running the Fed in the Treasury Market

2010-01-18

There Is No Business Like Bond Business

2009-10-28

Forgotten Anniversary

2009-10-17

The Gold Basis Is Dead — Long Live The Gold Basis!

2009-09-30

The Supply of Oxen at the IMF

2009-09-09

Has Barrick Been Barricked by the U.S.?

2009-08-28

“Gold Is Pale Because It Has So Many Thieves Plotting Against It”

2009-08-25

More Dress Rehearsal For The Last Contango

2009-08-24

Dress Rehearsal For The Last Contango

2009-07-19

The Federal Reserve As An Engine of Deflation (sic!)

2009-07-10

Remobilize Gold To Save The World Economy!

2009-06-29

The Revisionist Theory and History of Depressions

2009-06-24

Is Aggregate Debt Excessive?
The Obama administration is looking at the wrong ratio

2009-06-23

The Vanishing Of The Gold Basis
and its implications for the international monetary system

2009-06-10

Fiat Money In Death Throes

2009-05-06

Interview In Daily Bell

2009-04-27

Falsifying Bank Balance Sheets

2009-04-17

The Significance of the Gold Standard

2009-04-11

A Critique of the Quantity Theory of Money

2009-03-30

The Marginal Productivity of Debt

2009-03-22

The Gold Standard Institute

2009-03-21

There Is More Where This Gift Has Come From

2009-03-08

That Accursed Propensity to Save

2009-03-04

Iron Law of the Burden of Debt

2009-02-12

Growth And Debt: Is There A Trade-off?

2009-02-02

How To Stop The Depression

2009-01-11

Open The Mint To Gold!

2008-12-31

An Unhappy New Year

2008-12-21

Forward Thinking On Backwardation

2008-12-18

Backward Thinking On Backwardation

2008-12-14

Backwardation That Shook The World

2008-12-10

There Is No Fever Like Gold Fever

2008-12-08

Has The Curtain Fallen On The Last Contango In Washington?

2008-12-05

San Francisco School of Economics, June– Aug 2009
MONEY AND BANKING

2008-12-05

RED ALERT: GOLD BACKWARDATION!!!

2008-11-27

“Thou Shalt Not Crucify Labor On This Cross Of Paper Money”

2008-11-04

Revisionsist Theory of Depressions

Can It Happen Again?

2008-11-03

Monetary Reform: Gold and Bills of Exchange

2008-10-16

Committee for Monetary Research and Education (CMRE)

THE MECHANISM OF CAPITAL DESTRUCTION

2008-10-10

Troubled Ass Relief Program (TARP)

2008-10-03

The Gold Standard Strikes Back. . .
. . .With A 36-Year Lag Part 2

2008-09-25

The Gold Standard Strikes Back. . .
. . .With A 36-Year Lag Part 1

2008-09-16

Has Hedging Killed The Goose That Was To Lay The Golden Egg?

2008-09-09

Has Hedging Killed The Goose That Was To Lay The Golden Egg?

2008-08-30

Cut Off Your Tail To Save My Face

2008-07-02

Farewell Address

2008-06-11

Putting Loin-Cloth On The Naked Bogeyman

2008-06-04

It’s Not a Dollar Crisis: It’s a Gold Crisis

2008-04-28

GOTTERDÄMMERUNG

2008-04-01

Gold In Hoards versus Gold On The Go

2008-03-28

Forgotten Anniversary Haunts The Nation

2008-03-01

Paper Tiger Preying On Gold Bugs

2008-02-29

The Anti-Gold Gospel According to Frieden

2008-02-25

The Anti-Gold Gospel According To Smith

2008-02-05

Opening The Mint To Gold And Silver

2008-01-31

The Double Whammy of Geopolitical Global Gold Games

2008-01-28

The Crash Of The Bank Of United States

2008-01-26

The Anti-Gold Gospel According To Kaletsky

2008-01-17

Gold: How High Is High?

2007-12-16

Fiat Currency: Destroyer of Labor

2007-12-05

Fiat Currency: Destroyer of Capital

2007-11-24

Our Diseased Monetary Bloodstream

2007-11-01

The Shadow Pyramid

2007-11-01

The Saga Of The Naked Boogieman

2007-10-04

Peak Gold! Part Five

2007-09-23

Exploding the Myth of Silver Shortage

2007-09-23

Can We Have Inflation And Deflation?

2007-09-20

Peak Gold! Part Four

2007-09-19

Peak Gold! Part Three

2007-08-31

Peak Gold! Part Two

2007-07-26

Keeping Our Eyes Peeled for the Silver and Gold Basis

2007-07-12

Have Gold Bugs Been Barricked by the US?

2007-06-15

Peak Gold! Part One

2007-05-31

Gold Vanishing Into Private Hoards

2007-05-30

The Golden Thorn In The Flesh Part Two

2007-05-18

The Decoy of the Falling Dollar Revisited

2007-03-31

The Golden Thorn In The Flesh Part One

2007-03-07

Gold, Interest, Basis

2007-01-15

The Root Cause Of Unemployment Part Two

2007-01-11

The Root Cause Of Unemployment Part One

2007-01-05

Forbidden Research

2006-12-14

Can The Second Coming of Paul Volcker Save The Dollar?

2006-12-03

Where Friedman Went Wrong

2006-10-07

When Atlas Shrugged Part Two

2006-08-24

When Atlas Shrugged Part One

2006-08-11

To Barrick Or To Be Barricked That Is The Question

2006-08-07

Real Bills: “Waggon-Way in the Air”

2006-07-26

Federal Reserve Follies: What Really Started the Great Depression

2006-06-30

The Last Contango In Washington

2006-06-25

Monetary Versus Non-Monetary Commodities

2006-06-23

The Rise And Fall Of The Gold Basis

2006-05-11

Ultracrepidarian Musings

2006-05-04

Bull In Bear’s Skin?

2006-01-09

The Gold Standard Manifesto

2006-01-09

Gold Standard Manifesto

2005-12-02

Silver Charade, Gold Charade

2005-11-21

The Fall And Rise Of The Gold Standard

2005-11-15

The Myth Of The New American Gold Standard

2005-10-09

Economic Entropy

2005-09-30

Unemployment: Human Sacrifice On The Altar Of Mammon

2005-09-26

A Revisionist Theory and History of Money: Real Bills and Employment

2005-09-22

A Revisionist Theory And History of Money

2005-09-16

When Mises Went Wrong

2005-07-28

The Year Of The Euro

2005-07-12

Detractors Of Adam Smith’s Real Bills Doctrine

2005-05-01

The Goldbug, Variations V

2005-04-20

The Goldbug, Variations IV

2005-04-01

The Goldbugs, Variations III

2005-03-28

The Goldbugs, Variations II

2005-03-25

The Goldbugs, Variations I

2005-03-21

Burning Birdges and Halfway House

2005-03-13

Is Linkage Broken? No, Symmetry of Speculation Is

2005-03-07

Tsunami In The Bond Market

2005-03-01

Greenspan Has Taken The Horse To Water: But Can He Make It Drink?

2005-02-27

The Decoy of the Falling Dollar

2005-02-14

Two Views On The Self-Immolation Of Paper Money

2005-01-24

Causes and Consequences Of Kondratiev’s Long Wave Cycle

2005-01-20

The Supply Of Oxen At The Federal Reserve

2004-05-04

What Gold And Silver Analysts Overlook

2004-04-02

Contrarian Roundtable On The Fed

2003-12-15

Contrarian Roundtable On Inflation

2003-12-15

Contrarian Roundtable on Central Bankers And gold

2003-09-25

The Gold-Demonetization Hoax: Gary North Is Wrong On Gold

2003-09-22

Gold Is The Cure For The Job Drain

2003-08-23

How To Protect One’s Pension With Gold

2003-06-27

The Bubble That Broke The World

2003-06-25

Stop Greenspan From Plunging America Into A Depression

2003-06-10

Tainted Research: Lysenkoism – American Style

2002-05-02

The Texas Hedges Of Barrick

2002-03-13

Revisionist View Of The Great Depression Part Two

2002-03-06

Revisionist View Of the Great Depression Part One

1996-10-02

Whither Gold?