Deliberately Misplaced Blame
Central economic planning and laissez-faire capitalism are completely incompatible concepts — by definition.
Booms and Busts
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1819: America’s First Housing Bubble
The Panic of 1819 lasted about three years — the Great Depression lasted well over a decade. When looking for solutions to our current mess, we should study a winning team.
A Recipe for the Next Great Depression
The Mises Circle in Colorado, sponsored by the Limited Government Forum of Colorado Springs, 4 April 2009.
Bubble Economics
The Mises Circle in Colorado, sponsored by the Limited Government Forum of Colorado Springs, 4 April 2009.
Why You’ve Never Heard of the Great Depression of 1920
The Mises Circle in Colorado, sponsored by the Limited Government Forum of Colorado Springs, 4 April 2009.
Greenspan’s Bogus Defense
What a warped view of how the market economy works, to think that savings and foreign investment can cripple an economy.
Blowing Bubbles
Incessant creation of fiat money by government central banks will serve to engender more speculative booms to lure investors into financial ruin.
There Will Be Hyper(Inflation)
The German hyperinflation was the result of a policy that considered the financing of government debt by an accelerating increase in the money stoc
The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Great Depression and the New Deal, by Robert P. Murphy
Robert Murphy demonstrates in this excellent book a penetrating ability to explain the essence of fallacious economic doctrines. As he notes, three theories offer competing explanations of the Great Depression
Politically Incorrect Guide to the Great Depression and the New Deal
Robert Murphy puts together in one easy package the research of hundreds of scholars, showing that it was not capitalism that failed in 1929 but the boom times created by Fed credit expansion. Murphy takes aim at the Chicago School economists...
