Will Policy Makers Turn a Global Economic Slowdown Into a Crisis?
It is easy to blame weakening global markets on Trump, but it would be dangerous to believe that's the real cause of the slowdown.
It is easy to blame weakening global markets on Trump, but it would be dangerous to believe that's the real cause of the slowdown.
As a government economist for Austria following WWI, Mises fought a losing battle against reckless policies of inflation and government spending.
Although hardly "free-market" in any doctrinaire way, the relatively free economy of Taiwan delivered immense growth in standards of living while many Chinese on the mainland starved.
The "Green New Deal" is aptly named, in the sense that the original New Deal was a massive boondoggle that restricted liberty and crippled the economy.
The economist’s lot is to study a field in which, almost more than any other, human folly displays itself.
A traditional argument for unbacked fiat money was based on the idea it was less-costly to produce fiat money than gold or silver. This cost savings could then enrich society overall. But recent data suggests this isn't true.
The Venezuelan central bank helped the regime destroy the middle class's wealth for many years.
It's government — not markets — that intervene to "stimulate" ever greater amounts of spending and consumption. A healthy market economy, meanwhile, relies on both saving and spending.
Austrian scholars should not shy away from engaging mainstream law and economics scholars.
The academic scholar, along with the great teacher, is vanishing from the universities and being replaced by one-dimensional specialists.