Relying on the general management theory the article covers the issues of economic security as one of the factors in the whole system of national security. It has been proved that the interaction of economic and non-economic social and cultural factors in the lives of socio-economic formations...

This paper shows that the Federal Reserve Board, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and the Security and Exchange Commission have embraced an unconstitutional system of money and finance. This system is designed to deprive the principals (citizens) of their hard-earned wealth. It is...

This paper discusses Keynes’s surprisingly positive views on the medieval scholastic teaching on usury and draws upon his work to argue that the traditional view of usury (understood as the charging of rent for the use of money) as anti-social is well-founded. Keynes’s understanding of the...

This volume analyzes two decisive factors that have become embedded in the world spread of capitalism, a shift toward dominance of the financial sector, now entailing massive greed and calling into question whether the ‘rules’ of capitalism have been broken, and of global wage differentials...

The paper considers theoretic reasoning of necessity and technological implementation of self-regulated monetary system based on commodity backed money. Transformational approach to conversion of the current monetary system model using modern exchange infrastructure and technologies in the USA...

The article considers free banking formation approach in self-regulated monetary system and its benefits for economic agents and society in general.

In the future economic system, as suggested by TOP Tax system, the total money supply (real money and debt money/loan money) to be necessary for circulation in banks should be at the minimum level of 100% and at maximum level 110% of the value of GDP of the country. Out of this total money...

This paper highlights that real interest rates in Brazil have declined substantially over time, but are still well above the average of emerging market inflation targeting regimes. The adoption of an inflation-targeting regime and better economic fundamentals (reduction in inflation volatility...

It is well documented that the time-varying bond excess returns can be explained by predetermined variables such as information in the term structure and macro economic variables. Recent studies suggest that demand and supply of bonds influence bond excess returns. We extend the literature and...

Even as in the debate over the current financial crisis there is a general agreement on the role played by foreign capital inflows into the United States –that, together with financial deregulation, allowed for an excessive increase of credit in that country–, we think that their importance...