Christopher Mayer

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08/20/2014 Mises Daily Christopher Mayer

[ Editor’s Note: This month marks the 43rd anniversary of Nixon’s closing of the gold window. This article originally appeared in The Free Market in January 2004.] “The world is in permanent monetary...

In Defense of Shorts

09/01/2000 Free Market Christopher Mayer

The Free Market 18, no. 9 (September 2000) Dictatorships always immediately ban short selling,” wrote Fred Schwed, Jr., in his fun 1940 book on investing, “since it is axiomatic with them that no...

Is a Bust Better Than No Boom?

03/01/2003 Free Market Christopher Mayer

The Free Market 21, no. 3 (March 2003) The once unsoiled House of Greenspan, feted as it was by the yeomen of the New Economy with its attendant mythology, now finds itself smeared by criticism that...

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