Jim Mosquera

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• Bubbles Part III

  Published 16 April 2014 | viewed 0 times

  In the previous article, I provided a brief outline of the South Sea Bubble of 1711-1720. In this article, I focus on the current financial…

• Bubbles Part II

  Published 15 April 2014 | viewed 0 times

  In the previous article, I discussed one of the first documented examples of bubbles and a dramatization of a bubble with a St. Louis sports…

• Bubbles Part I

  Published 14 April 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Bubbles, the final economic frontier. This is the voyage of the Market. Its multi-year mission is to explore strange new manias; to seek out new…

• Inflation Part III

  Published 10 April 2014 | viewed 0 times

  One of the most important financial, but least understood, events of the 20th century was the creation of the Federal Reserve System. In the late…

• Inflation Part II

  Published 07 April 2014 | viewed 0 times

  At one point in the history of the United States, gold and silver coins were money. We use the term money since it satisfies the…

• Inflation Part I

  Published 07 April 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Readers of this column understand how the Herculean government deflation fighting effort will be inadequate. The incipient component necessary for the development of modern bubbles…

• Investors Having Difficult Time Identifying Bubbles Again

  Published 20 March 2014 | viewed 0 times

  "Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." - Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New World The novel, Brave New World, introduced the…

• Janet Yellen Interview Part II

  Published 20 March 2014 | viewed 0 times

  This is the second part of the Janet Yellen interview from the documentary, Money for Nothing: Inside the Federal Reserve. As in the earlier article,…

• Janet Yellen Interview Part I

  Published 18 March 2014 | viewed 0 times

  In the documentary, Money for Nothing: Inside the Federal Reserve, current Fed chair, Janet Yellen gave rather candid answers to questions the American public has…

• Bitcoin Mt. Gox Exchange Disappears

  Published 13 March 2014 | viewed 0 times

  When reading about the Mt. Gox debacle today, it reminded me of an eponymously named character from the Dr. Seuss book, One Fish Two Fish…

• Fiscal Cliff is Part of a Larger Cliff

  Published 05 January 2013 | viewed 0 times

  In the book Escaping Oz, one of the subtexts centered on the intersection of politics and economics. Due to the nature of our monetary system…