Booms and Busts

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David Saied

By piling on trillions to the national debt, the government will have to keep interest rates low for a longer period, promoting ever-greater debt. The result of this must be unsustainably higher levels of debt — and the worst financial crisis ever seen in the history of mankind.

Thorsten Polleit

"Interventionism is not an economic system, that is, it is not a method which enables people to achieve their aims. It is merely a system of procedures which disturb and eventually destroy the market economy. It hampers production and impairs satisfaction of needs. It does not make people richer; it makes people poorer."

Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.

The Obama administration pulled out the old bag of tricks and claimed that they only needed to loot the public of hundreds of billions and spend it on building up government, and then, wow, like magic, the entire economy would come back to life.

Robert P. Murphy

No matter how you slice it, the former Maestro spawned housing, commodity, and stock booms with his reckless policies.

Philipp Bagus David Howden

The Free Market 27, no. 8 (August 2009)