Money and Banking

Politicians and the mainstream media have faith in the central banks to manipulate and manage the global economy.

There is trouble lurking in each of the book’s four chapters. The text gets off on a wrong foot as Bernanke overviews the origins and purposes of the Fed.

August 9, 2014 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the signing into law of the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act (FIRREA) of 1989 by U.S. President George Herbert Walker Bush. FIRREA was enacted to clean up the savings and loan (S&L) financial debacle of the 1980s. In articles, books, symposia, and papers written in the wake of the debacle, popular media and mainstream financial economists each provided explanations of the debacle. This paper analyzes and rejects these explanations in favor of an alternative based on Ludwig von Mises’s observation that market interventions create unintended consequences that usually lead to more interventions that in turn create new waves of unintended and worsening consequences until no more interventions are possible.

Low interest rates combined with high-risk fractional reserve banking creates a powder keg on which we’re sitting today, writes Frank Hollenbeck.

The debate over the Export-Import Bank continues, with the bank’s friends in Congress and other high places claiming that the Bank serves an

This article has a twofold purpose. Its first goal is to pay tribute to Friedrich von Hayek as an outstanding monetary theorist. Its second objective is to further elaborate, on the ground of Hayek’s main findings,

Ludwig von Mises (1981; 1998) is generally and properly credited by contemporary Austrians with having reintegrated monetary theory with general economic theory from which it had been severed by the neoclassical quantity theory.

An excellent summary of the recent mainstream debates on the role of a central bank and the conduct of monetary policy and provides a framework for monetary policy that ignores all the lessons

Austrian economist Lawrence White, formerly of the University of Georgia, has given us in The Theory of Monetary Institutions, a book written in mainstream mode yet embellished with Austrian insights. 

In an age when deflation is widely feared and the threat of deflation serves as a justification for radical policy proposals, Bordo and Redish have done a great service in showing that deflation is not harmful to the economy,