There is the backlash against Ben Bernanke's crackpot money-printing scheme. It creates bubbles. It distorts markets.

Maybe gold is going vertical.  Or maybe it is just toying with us.

The counterfeiter creates money that looks just like the real stuff, but it has no gold or other backing behind it.

Ben Bernanke made his reputation as a master plumber in Princeton, New Jersey, interpreting drippy money supply faucets and deconstructing clogged fiscal drains.  And now, he has become the hope of all mankind.  Or at least that part of mankind that hopes to get something for nothing.

The Fed announced a $600 billion purchase program, from here until June. Will it work? Will it create real prosperity, growth, and wealth?

If bond buyers will not finance America’s trip to bankruptcy, the Fed will provide as much brand, spanking new money as necessary.

The debt level per private sector worker -- the people who have to pay the bills -- will nearly double between 2007 and 2015.

Investors are waiting to see what happens next week. They’re sitting on the edge of their chairs. Will Ben Bernanke play it cool? Or will he want to do something really big, bold, and bumbling?

It is certainly the best of times for economists with a sense of humor.

Normal inflation is caused when people have more money to spend and less to spend it on.  They bid up prices.  Hyperinflation is different.