Capital and Interest Theory

This book by Eugen von Boehm-Bawerk is a supplement...

It was this very day that I was telling some visiting students about the silliness of the old populist silver movement of the late 19th century, how they ridiculously believed that all economic troubles could be solved if only the government would print more money — not realizing that more money...

Punk, Ziegel analyst Richard X. Bove argues here that recent Fed policies and pronouncement amount to a bailout of Countrywide Financial. If so, then Bernanke's Fed is similar to Greenspan's in...

The turmoil in financial markets is eliciting the usual response from the central bankers, all up there in their Hueys, 'Die Walkuere' blasting out of their beat boxes. But the fixation on the 'sub-prime' angle and on the Fed's role in isolation only tells part of the story. While...