When the Spanish Galleons came back from the New World with cargoes of gold and silver coins, the Spaniards thought they’d hit the jackpot. All of a sudden, Iberia had plenty of money. Historians report that the Spanish neglected their fields and their manufactures; now they had easy money to spend. Prices rose quickly. Then, when the treasure ships stopped coming, the Spanish were broke. Spain – and Portugal too – went into a decline that lasted four centuries.
March 16th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 2 comments | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "free money"
The Path Towards Rampant Inflation
This weekend I’ll republish an article that I wrote for Daily Reckoning readers on Tuesday… It isn’t a four-letter word uttered by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on TV at the weekend that continues to get everyone in a tizz. Instead it’s four-little-words that everyone is rushing to embrace. Words that define the resurgence of a failed and discredited economic theory…
March 14th, 2009 | Kris Sayce | 0 comments | Continued