Booms and Busts
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Did the Fed, or Asian Saving, Cause the Housing Bubble?
The original Misesian insight has withstood the test: it still seems that the Fed was a necessary condition for the worst speculative bubble in world history.
Can Friedman’s Money Rule Stabilize the Economy?
We can thus conclude that the gold standard, if not abused, is not conducive to boom-bust cycles.
Consumers Don’t Cause Recessions
"There are so many problems with Krugman's thinking that it's hard to know where to begin."
Markets Need Time, Not More Poison
But even "free market" media such as the Wall Street Journal cling to Keynesian pump-priming, which — by the media's own admission — didn't help Japan and in fact caused the housing boom.
Greenspan not to blame?
Jeffrey Tucker offers insights into Greenspan's role in the 2008 economic crash.
Bubbles Made of Paper: Then and Now
Recorded at the Mises Institute Supporters Summit, 1 November 2008; Auburn, Alabama.
A Fake Banking History of the United States
John Steele Gordon’s “short history” of banking is filled with falsehoods.
A Fake Banking History of the United States
There is, after all, a very keen similarity between Hamiltonian mercantilism — or an economy directed and controlled by government, supposedly "in the public interest" but in reality for the benefit of a privileged few — and the economic fascism of Italy (and Germany) of the 1920s and '30s.
Has Libertarianism Ended?
Contrary to what Weisberg claims, the philosophy of freedom has, once again, been proven right.
