are marooned on the island, and they find a can of tuna, but have no way to open it. Says the engineer: “Let’s find a rock and crush the can open.” Suggests the the starvation associated with these awful events has mainly been due to lack of access to food, rather than lack of its availability; the food, he says, was there
payment inability occurred in the 1820s. After Latin American countries regained access to external markets, it did not take long until the second wave of debt high time preference that permeates almost all aspects of life. Access to credit opens the way to instant spending; thus, debt is accumulated, even if--by prudent
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and inanimate nature (Ibid., p. 102). If the world’s intellectuals had been open to the possibility that they had been wrong about the nature of capitalism and down compounds previously beyond his power, or to do so with less effort, to gain access to regions of the earth previously inaccessible or to improve his access to
card didn’t get any use. First timers are under the impression that, since the opening bids required are at appraised value, maybe the land can be had for near the parcels typically being sold inside of a minute’s time. Even a parcel with no access (auctioneer Mike McKee said “only helicopter people should bid”) sold for
find lenders willing to extend them credit. It is not, then, that banks don’t have access to lenders absent a central bank. The issue is whether the “lender of last not be trusted. Also, the government intervention allowed bankrupt banks to re-open for business without having to pay their old debts. Those banks that managed
capital markets, the moves pave the way for a resumption of Argentina’s access to Fund lending later this month, the impetus for the apparent quid pro quo . U.S. courts froze Argentine assets in Maryland and inside the Beltway, at least opening the door for lender confiscation. But as Thomas Griesa, one of the judges
thanks to imitative behavior in which market participants follow the path opened by successful pioneers. Three Problems There are 3 problems to address in Second Case: Credit Expansion What happens when financial intermediaries have access to actual savings and newly created credit funds? As explained by the Austrian
even though this caused the Treasury headaches of its own as a gulf in value was opened up between its receipts of the more heavily discounted western banknotes and is a thing unheard of; the broad way to certain and sudden wealth lies plain and open; and men are tempted to dash forward boldly, from the facility of borrowing. of private equity paying ever higher multiples and ever more enormous sums for the access to the debt-light balance sheets of outwardly average companies (the fatal
Minority Report By Murray N. Rothbard The press is resounding with acclaim for the accession to Power of Alan Greenspan as chairman of the Fed; economists from right, by the federal government in the form of the Fed. The Fed continually enters the “open market” to buy government securities. With what does the Fed pay for those
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