Business Cycles

Legendary investor Bill Gross calls on the Fed to bring on Milton Friedman's "helicopter money."

What are the limits to Austrian Business Cycle Theory? Does it need help to explain business cycles?

George Monbiot's attack on neoliberalism fails to account for the conflict between the Austrian school and the neoliberals.

The committee to select the winners of the Nobel prize in economics almost always prefer interventionists to laissez-faire economists. The first year was no exception.

The Yen remains strong for a variety of reasons. Restrained monetary policy in Japan isn't one of them.

Thanks to the great Tatsuya Iwakura, who has translated numerous books by Austrian economists into Japanese, The Austrian Theory of the Trade Cycle and Other Essays, edited by Richard Ebeling, is now available as a Kindle book in Japanese.

Recessions are good for an economy because they involve a resolution process, but a big recession for this boom town could be great for the world economy.

Simple Janet should have the decency to resign.

The paper aims to defend the general validity of the ABCT against the assumption that the theory does not hold if entrepreneurs are able to anticipate correctly the inflationary effects of a fiduciary credit expansion.