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America Needs a Good, Old-Fashioned Economic Depression

07/21/2016 Mises Wire Jay Zawatsky

Describing what he called the “crack-up boom,” Ludwig von Mises, the great Austrian economist, said: The boom cannot continue indefinitely. There are two alternatives. Either the banks continue the...

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