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After the Boom Must Come the Bust
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Tags Booms and BustsThe FedU.S. Economy
The Federal Reserve has created a huge boom full of bubbles. But after the boom must eventually come a bust. Ryan and Tho talk to Mises Institute Senior Fellow Mark Thornton about what to expect from the next recession and how we got ourselves into our current inflationary mess.
"Eliminating Economic Crises" by Mark Thornton: Mises.org/RR_118_A
"The REAL Solution to the Coming Economic Crisis" by Mark Thornton: Mises.org/RR_118_B
"Wholesale Price Inflation Is Slowing as Economy Worsens" by Ryan McMaken: Mises.org/RR_118_C
The Skyscraper Curse: And How Austrian Economists Predicted Every Major Economic Crisis of the Last Century by Mark Thornton: Mises.org/RR_118_D
"Will the Fed Pop the Everything Bubble?" by Daniel Lacalle: Mises.org/RR_118_E
"The Trillion-Dollar Coin Idea Is Just Another Way to Rip Us Off" by Ryan McMaken: Mises.org/RR_118_F
"The Fed's Real Mandate" by Mark Thornton: Mises.org/RR_118_G
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Tho is Editorial and Content Manager for the Mises Institute, and can assist with questions from the press. Prior to working for the Mises Institute, he served as Deputy Communications Director for the House Financial Services Committee. His articles have been featured in The Federalist, the Daily Caller, Business Insider, The Washington Times, and The Rush Limbaugh Show.
Ryan McMaken (@ryanmcmaken) is executive editor at the Mises Institute. Send him your article submissions for the Mises Wire and Power and Market, but read article guidelines first. Ryan has a bachelor's degree in economics and a master's degree in public policy and international relations from the University of Colorado. He was a housing economist for the State of Colorado. He is the author of Breaking Away: The Case of Secession, Radical Decentralization, and Smaller Polities and Commie Cowboys: The Bourgeoisie and the Nation-State in the Western Genre.
Mark Thornton is the Peterson-Luddy Chair in Austrian Economics and a Senior Fellow at the Mises Institute. He is the book review editor of the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, and has authored seven books and is a frequent guest on national radio shows.