Money and Banking

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Frank Shostak

Central banks contend they can avoid booms and busts by increasing the money supply the "correct" amount. They are bound to fail.

Carmen Elena Dorobăț

A important factor in wealth redistribution has been the increased participation of both financial and non-financial firms in financial markets.

Patrick Barron

The consequences of counterfeiting are the same regardless of who does it. The counterfeiters are exchanging nothing for something — thus stealing from those who create real value.

Ryan McMaken

Trump doesn't understand the problem with the boom-bust cycle is the boom phase, not the bust.

Carmen Elena Dorobăț

Mises’s insight into the importance of Cantillon effects can be further extended to explain not only income and wealth inequalities among individuals but also some rather curious developments in global industrial organization over the last few decades.

Frank Shostak

Expansionary monetary policy causes economic recessions. It doesn't cure them.

Alasdair Macleod

Pumping yet more credit into the Eurozone is as effective as giving adrenalin to a dead horse. 

Joseph T. Salerno

Joseph Salerno discusses the Hoppean method of addressing economic controversies.

Alasdair Macleod

Existing political tensions within the EU are certain to escalate as the EU falls behind in global economic power, and Brussels, hooked on profligacy, for the first time faces budget cuts.