Monetary Theory

How glorious and wonderful is the appointment of Ben Bernanke? Frank Shostak says not at all, because his theory is wrong.

How do we measure 'profits,' asks Sean Corrigan, when the vast quantities of money and credit are being poured into our domestic economy?

Recorded at the Mises Institute, 7–8 October 2005. 

Jim Fedako explains that if recycling were really efficient and not wasteful, people would not have to be browbeaten to do it.

“I know no time which is lost more thoroughly than that devoted to arguing on matters of fact with a disputant who has no facts, but only ver

Disruption, high prices, and dislocations of all sorts have led to call for a new "energy policy." Let us consider the case of Indonesia, writes K.Y. Leong, which has an energy policy of an unusual sort.

Index targeting is widely viewed as a state-of-the-art concept, writes Thorstein Polleit. But in Mises's view, the very idea of measuring price levels toward stabilization is theoretically untenable and politically dangerous.

Recorded at Mises University 2005.

Recorded at Mises University 2005.

Can there be such thing as too much saving? Frank Shostak says this is like asking if can we have too much real wealth.