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- Booms and Busts
- 2007
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Mark Thornton
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Presented to the Auburn University Libertarians; Auburn, Alabama, on 17 February 2007.
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Mark Thornton
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The Hans Sennholz Memorial Lecture, delivered at the Austrian Student Scholars Conference hosted by Grove City College; 2 November 2007.
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Thomas E. Woods, Jr.
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Boom-busts were a feature of markets. Under consumption caused the depression. WWII ended the Great Depression. All three Keynesian beliefs were inaccurate. Only the Austrian Business Cycle Theory got it right. Artificially lowered interest rates mislead investors. The Federal Reserve’s policy of cheap money creates mal-investments. The cause of
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Thorsten Polleit
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I. Introduction Under today’s government-controlled paper-money standards, the world’s major economies have embarked upon an unprecedented expansion of credit, starting in the early 1980s. As credit growth has been outstripping economies’ rise in output, total debt levels in percent of gross domestic product (GDP) have increased strongly. Take,
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Thorsten Polleit
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Since the end of April 2001, the US dollar price of a troy ounce of gold has risen from US$264 to US$747 as of October 1, 2007 (Fig. 1) (November 1 spot is $783); in that period, gold has even “outperformed” the US stock market. To put it in less pleasant terms: the exchange value of the US dollar vis-à-vis gold — the world’s ultimate, freely
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John Paul Koning
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CNBC and other stock market tabloids are notorious for making simplistic linkages between the stock market and gross domestic product (GDP). They tell us that any event that stimulates GDP growth inevitably drives stock prices up, and any event that hurts GDP growth pushes stocks down. Since the largest share of GDP is consumption, consumer demand
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Matthew Beller
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Ludwig von Mises once wrote that an economist “must be conversant with mathematics, physics, biology, history, and jurisprudence, lest he confuse the tasks and the methods of the theory of human action with the tasks and the methods of any of these other branches of knowledge.” In modern times, with the increasing popularity of computer-based
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Brian J. Stanley
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The credit markets are in some turmoil, and numerous market watchers and commentators are calling for or even (like Jim Cramer ) demanding a rate cut from the Fed. The immediate question for these market watchers, of course, is this: how will the market react to cuts, or to no cuts? But the broader question is, how will the underlying economy
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C.J. Maloney
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“To understand the Great Depression is the Holy Grail of macroeconomics.” — Ben Bernanke [1] The Great Depression, more than any other event in the history of these United States, still brings a collective shudder to Americans in the same way the Black Death stills tugs at the fears of Europe. It was, hands down, the most devastating economic