Benjamin Weingarten

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12/11/2009 Mises Daily Benjamin Weingarten

"We don't know how many jobs have been lost because of the ones that have theoretically been saved or created."

Government Intervention and Market Volatility

12/01/2008 Mises Daily Benjamin Weingarten

Creating programs outside of the markets to try to support illiquid assets undermines the objective signals of markets in which value is measured by the market price.

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