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Doug French

Tags Booms and BustsMoney and Banks

Works Published inSpeeches and PresentationsMises Daily ArticleQuarterly Journal of Austrian EconomicsThe Free Market

Douglas French is President Emeritus of the Mises Institute, author of Early Speculative Bubbles & Increases in the Money Supply, and author of Walk Away: The Rise and Fall of the Home-Ownership Myth. He received his master's degree in economics from UNLV, studying under both Professor Murray Rothbard and Professor Hans-Hermann Hoppe. His website is DouglasInVegas.com.

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The Five Stages of Bank Failure Grief

Cronyism and CorporatismThe FedMoney and BanksU.S. Economy

06/04/2023Mises Media
We are familiar with the five stages of grief. However, it is not a stretch to apply those stages to what is happening to the banking system. Right now, we are in the second stage: anger.
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The Fed Fights COVID Largesse

US Economy
06/02/2023Power & Market

While hope springs eternal that bank run troubles and tightening bank credit will make Jerome Powell and company come to their senses and stop the rate hike madness, there is a not so tiny problem the Fed knows and the average Joe and Jane doesn’t. Former Dallas Fed President Robert Kaplan was...

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broken piggy bank

The Bankruptcy Caravan Is Now Arriving: Time to Pay for the Easy Money

Booms and BustsThe FedInflationU.S. EconomyBusiness Cycles

Blog05/29/2023

As the Fed increases interest rates to reverse the inflation it has caused, firms that depended on easy money will face the bankruptcy judge. Stay tuned; there's more to come.

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Entreprenuership Breaks Out at Taylor Swift Concert

Entrepreneurship
05/28/2023Power & Market

The flowers of entrepreneurship bloom in the strangest places. Misesian entrepreneurs attending the rain soaked Taylor Swift concert at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts determined there would be a market for rain which had fallen near the pop diva.

The New York Post reported...

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Finance Discovers Sting: "How Fragile We Are"

Financial MarketsMoney and BanksU.S. EconomyInterventionism

05/27/2023Mises Media
Despite the soothing hot air from the White House and Fed officials, the financial system is becoming increasingly fragile and unstable. Maybe all of that intervention the past decade was not wise.
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