From April 6, 1959: As inflation increases, apologists emerge to suggest that, after all, inflation may be a very good thing—or, if an evil, at least a necessary evil.
Ships aren’t cheap to purchase. But when financing is abnormally cheap and expectations of future business are rosy, it stands to reason that shipping companies would put in a raft of orders.
The usually sensible Larry White recently blogged a silly and petty comment on Hans Hoppe's Mises Daily Article "The Yield from Money Held' Reconsidered".
On the eve of World War II, Keynes delivered a chilling address on the BBC, talking about the "great experiment" of curing unemployment through war expenditure.
