The Diabolical Side of ZIRP
ZIRP has created massive asset bubbles throughout the world economy, but also has a diabolical impact on ordinary people who are largely disconnected to the bubbles.
Business Cycles
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Disaggregating the Credit Expansion: The Role of Changes in Banks’ Asset Structure in the Business Cycle
The aim of the article is to refine the Austrian business cycle theory by discussing the effect of changes in banks’ asset structure on the business cycle.
Can You Find the Crisis?
Free Fed money has led to an unprecedented corporate credit binge of excess spending, especially on share buybacks.
There’s More to Money than Hyperinflation
It’s common to paint Austrians as doom-and-gloom prophets of economic collapse, with little to offer besides paranoid predictions of hyperinflations and monetary collapses lurking around every corner.
Skyscraper Curse Signal in China
There are so many skyscrapers being built in China that I have not been able to keep track of them all. The "Walking Stick" building has just become the second tallest skyscraper in the world. This does not qualify as a genuine worldwide "skyscraper signal," but it does represent a signal for China.
Skyscraper Glass Shortage
So many skyscrapers are being built right now that there has emerged a shortage in the special glass panels that form the exterior of most modern skyscrapers.
Canada’s Real Estate Bubble Turns Bust
Half-empty office buildings on the rise in Calgary, Edmonton amid oil price plunge
Vanity Fair Says It’s a Bubble!
With the tech industry awash in cash and 100 “unicorn” start-ups now valued at $1 billion or more, Silicon Valley can’t escape Nick Bilton reports.
Review of Peddling Protectionism: Smoot-Hawley and the Great Depression by Douglas A. Irwin
Peddling Protectionism is a real gem. Irwin does not mince words, and he ably tosses aside misconceptions of Smoot-Hawley and replaces them with objective economic analysis.
