Money and Banking

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Sean Corrigan

Sean Corrigan shows how Rome and her history can give us a reaffirmation of our unshaken belief in the ability of Everyman, acting as a free individual, to repair all the damage ever done by history’s tyrants and their tax gatherers.

Robert P. Murphy

With the recent rate hike, the mainstream press obediently parrots the macroeconomic analysis offered by our friendly central planners at the Federal Reserve. The average citizen knows that he or she is not nearly smart enough to understand the complex interrelationships of various price indices, yield curves, consumer confidence, and so forth—that’s Greenspan’s job.

B.K. Marcus

Gilligan's Island economics can provide useful thought experiments, writes B.K. Marcus, for the same reasons Robinson Crusoe economics has served as a staple of classical and Austrian School economics texts.

Sean Corrigan

Just when the supposed threat of disinflation passed, now comes another frightful creation from the fearsome flation family: stagflation. Sean Corrigan explains.

Joseph T. Salerno

Joseph Salerno writes about a long-term look at this conventional wisdom that shows that 90 percent of deflations since 1820 have not resulted in depression.

Robert P. Murphy

In a market economy, writes Robert Murphy, the interest rate is not merely a lever to stimulate or depress economic growth.

Murray N. Rothbard

In recent years an increasing number of economists have understandably become disillusioned by the inflationary record of fiat currencies. They have therefore concluded that leaving the government and its central bank power to fine tune the money supply, but abjuring them to use that power wisely in accordance with various rules, is simply leaving the fox in charge of the proverbial henhouse.

Clifford F. Thies

If the goal is to increase confidence in money, writes Clifford Thies, putting Reagan's face on it won't do it.