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Mark Thornton

"In other words, you cannot accurately forecast a recession or financial panic by looking at either the announcement or the completion of the world’s tallest building"

 

So The Economist apparently does not think too "highly" of my skyscraper theory

Mark Thornton

Skyscrapers Selling at Superlative Prices

Mises Institute

Mises Daily Wednesday by Brendan Brown 

Milton Friedman once compared monetary stimulus to daylight saving time. But while daylight saving has an ending date, current monetary stimulus has no end in sight, and we’re just moving the clock ahead repeatedly without ever moving it back.

Mark Thornton

I am interviewed on Power Trading Radio about the Skyscraper Curse and Cyber Security Issues—Biggest Bank Heist in History!

Mark Thornton

The world is teeming with skyscraper building from China to London, and a new record-setting skyscraper is planned for 2016 in Saudi Arabia. Will this skyscraper herald the next global economic crisis as Dubai's Burj Khalifa presaged the 2009 crisis?

John P. Cochran

More evidence the future of Austrian economics is in good hands is Patrick Newman’s excellent piece of scholarship recently published in the QJAE as "The Depression of 1873: An Austrian Perspective."

Christopher Westley

According to a new report just out by McKinsey, global debt has increased by $57 trillion since the Great Recession, outpacing world GDP growth during this time period.

Mises Institute
The European Central Bank plans to ramp up its own version of quantitative easing because it fears deflation. But deflation really means an increase in real wealth and an end to many malinvestments.