John P. Cochran

Articles

Why We Need Deflation and Higher Interest Rates

03/28/2015 Mises Daily John P. Cochran

Once a recession sets in, markets can only repair themselves if prices — including wages — are allowed to fall where necessary. The resulting increases in real interest rates are the key to spurring new economic activity.

Protecting the Most Vulnerable

03/13/2015 Mises Wire John P. Cochran

If Senator Sanders was truly concerned with protecting the most vulnerable in society, he would be a leading advocate for repealing the minimum wage.

Action Trumps Sound Bites

03/10/2015 Mises Wire John P. Cochran

The GOP’s problem of establishing itself as the party of limited government has much more to do with action not rhetoric, framing, or sound bites. Actual actions speak much louder than words. The Republican power elite still remains, by action, a party committed to what is now called crony capitalism but should be more appropriately recognized as modern mercantilism, the unvanquished foe of liberty.

Media

Hayek’s Relevance for 21st-Century Boom-Bust and Recession-Recovery

03/15/2011 John P. Cochran

Session on Business Cycle Theory II. Recorded March 11, 2011, at the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama.

‘America’s Great Depression’ 50th Anniversary

04/01/2013 John P. Cochran

From the session on “’America’s Great Depression’ 50th Anniversary,” presented at the Austrian Economics Research Conference. Recorded 22 March 2013 at the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama.

Keynes Destroyed the West

01/23/2014 John P. Cochran

Interviewed by host Jay Taylor, John Cochran explains how Keynes’ anti-free market interest rates are destroying life sustaining capitalism.

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