Booms and Busts

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Robert P. Murphy

In the standard Austrian theory of the business cycle, the question is not "How do we get out of a recession?" Rather, the question is "How do we avoid the boom?" According to the Mises-Hayek theory, the preceding boom makes the corrective bust <i>inevitable</i>.

George Ford Smith
Governments and bankers hate gold because its supply cannot be inflated on command.
Patrick Barron
A recorded mini lecture and video display purported to explain this mysterious phenomenon (mysterious to the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street, anyway). I knew that I was going to hear either a self-critical explanation or, more likely, some hogwash. Hogwash won, hands down!
Shawn Ritenour

We cannot eat money. We cannot wear money. We cannot live in money. Money can't buy you love.

Patrick Barron

All of the industrial world's central banks and public treasuries currently are engaged in an impossible exercise.

Douglas French

Home prices peaked five years ago, but a mountain of foreclosures still looms.

Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.

Political upheaval has hit Finland, and it's merely a foreshadowing of bigger changes ahead.

Douglas French

Mansharamani uses the work of Roger Garrison and other Austrians to great effect. <a href="http://store.mises.org/Boombustology-Spotting-Financial-Bubbles-Before-They-Burst-P10464.aspx">Buy this book in the Mises Store.</a>