Perpetual Prosperity Through Home Re-Financing

03/09/2004 Mises Wire Robert Blumen

What if the people of a nation thought that they could borrow and spend their way to prosperity? That the more debt they took on, the wealthier they would be? And what if they were aided and abetted by the head of their central bank? This is what the world might look like [...article...]

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