Money and Banking

Bob Murphy and Carlos Lara discuss the yield curve from an Austrian perspective.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Joseph Salerno discusses the Hoppean method of addressing economic controversies.

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.

The real problem was the money supply inflation that happened during the boom phase. Combating deflation in the bust phase only superficially treats a symptom of the boom-bust cycle.

London is a major global hub, and a hard Brexit wouldn't change that. But one of the best possible outcomes of Brexit could be a move toward real free trade beyond the faux "free trade" of the EU bloc.