Frank Hollenbeck

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03/14/2025 Power & Market Frank Hollenbeck

Trumps claims that America has lost high paying manufacturing jobs to China because the communist country promotes its exports through subsidies, tax advantages and currency manipulations. The reality...

The Fraud Inherent in Fractional Reserve Banking

03/30/2024 Mises Wire Frank Hollenbeck

Suppose you bring a fur coat to a dry cleaner and later discover that the owner allowed his wife to wear it before cleaning it (an episode from Seinfeld). Or suppose you gave your car keys to a hotel...

Navigating the Complexity of Climate Change: A Closer Look at the Scientific Method and Its Challenges

01/31/2024 Mises Wire Frank Hollenbeck

The physical sciences have greatly advanced knowledge by elucidating the workings of simple phenomena. In a simple phenomenon, we have a limited number of important variables, all of which are...

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The Fraud Inherent in Fractional Reserve Banking

04/16/2024 Frank Hollenbeck

Although fractional reserve banking is the most popular model for banking, it is fraudulent at its core, something the Austrians have noted for many years.

To Avoid a Collapse of the Eurozone, Europe Moves Closer to a European Megastate

05/01/2020 Frank Hollenbeck

Debt-ridden countries such as Italy will come to rely more and more on Germans and other northern Europeans to finance their debt. This will require a more unified Europe. Or the whole thing may collapse.

Decades of Productivity Gains Have Made Our Debt Bomb Manageable (For Now)

05/02/2020 Frank Hollenbeck

Although the money supply has greatly increased, accompanying growth in production has it possible to keep the current system of immense debt increase going for a long time.

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