Booms and Busts

From “Choice in Currency: A Path to Sound Money”; the Mises Circle in Vancouver. Recorded 13 September 2008.

If we want to avoid the next great depression, all such government interventions should cease.

Building the world’s tallest building has been a matter of particularly bad timing by entrepreneurs.

Hayek was arguing that whenever and wherever credit is expanded beyond market dictates by a central bank, the result will be economic distortion.

From The Case Against The Fed (pp. 54-55), as narrated by Floy Lilley.

Mises proposed ending the government money-supply monopoly — which he identified as the root of the problem — and returning money to the free market.

"To prop up the unhealthy, malinvested markets, governments must cannibalize the healthy markets to find the needed cash to transfer the wealth."

A debate has been raging for some time among those in the finance industry about whether the United States is currently experiencing inflation, def

The Fed has already taken several drastic actions in an attempt to prevent deflation, but it remains to be seen whether it is even possible for it to achieve such a goal without destroying the dollar and the entire financial system.

Interviewed on the The Joey Panto Show, 2 July 2008.