Monetary Theory

Economics is about the most important and interesting drama of all — human action.

"The fact that credit booms are encouraged by derivative instruments has substantially increased the destabilizing effects of an artificial credit-expansion policy carried out by keeping the market interest rates below natural interest rates."

We should not be fooled into believing that the economy will crumble without high government spending and loose credit organization.

Maybe letting the market fix what government broke isn't an option they can bring themselves to embrace, even if it's the only way out.

From the market point of view the Fed is a bankrupt institution.

The chief objective of present-day government interference is to intensify further credit expansion. This policy is doomed to failure. Sooner or later it must result in a catastrophe.

Shiller's proposal, in contrast, gives the government a perverse incentive to raise tax receipts while strangling GDP. Isn't the government doing a great job of that already?

Hoppe definitively established that the unhampered market is superior in improving social welfare.

Those Americans who twice succeeded in doing away with a central bank were aware of the dangers; but they failed to see that the evils they fought

Thus, Mankiw's solution for dealing with unprecedented excess reserves is for the Fed to create even more reserves in order to pay bankers not to make new loans. Does that sound like a good long-term plan for the economy?