Tags Booms and BustsThe FedMoney and Banks
With commercial banks exposed by the recent bailouts, Americans question whether “their money” is truly safe despite the promises of FDIC insurance.
Jeff and Bob walk through the mechanics of how a full reserve bank could work in a truly free market based on the concepts and taxonomy of Mises’s Theory of Money and Credit.
Mises's A Theory of Money and Credit: Mises.org/TMC
Bob's study guide to A Theory of Money and Credit: Mises.org/HAP388a
John Cochran, 'The Safest Bank the Fed Won't Sanction': Mises.org/HAP388b
Robert P. Murphy is a Senior Fellow with the Mises Institute. He is the author of numerous books: Contra Krugman: Smashing the Errors of America's Most Famous Keynesian; Chaos Theory; Lessons for the Young Economist; Choice: Cooperation, Enterprise, and Human Action; The Politically Incorrect Guide to Capitalism; Understanding Bitcoin (with Silas Barta), among others. He is also host of The Bob Murphy Show.