Booms and Busts

Joseph Salerno writes about a long-term look at this conventional wisdom that shows that 90 percent of deflations since 1820 have not resulted in depression.

Booming home prices and record low interest rates are allowing homeowners to refinance their mortgages, "extract equity" to increase their spending, and lower their monthly payment! As one loan officer explained to me: "It’s almost too good to be true."

In a market economy, writes Robert Murphy, the interest rate is not merely a lever to stimulate or depress economic growth.

The Fed's recent decisions, writes Frank Shostak, are part of a new effort to conduct monetary policy in the absence of "shocks."

Presented as part of the Mises Institute’s Austrian Workshop seminar series on 22 June 2004 in Auburn, Alabama.

What the prophets of the new housing paradigm don't discuss, writes Mark Thornton, is that real estate markets have experienced similar cycles in the past.

Even HUD is getting into the act of expanding the housing bubble.

Sponsored by the Mises Institute and held in Houston, Texas; September 22-23, 1995.

China has experienced one of the great economic transformations in the history of the world, writes Frank Shostak. But will it last?

Argentina's economy is poised to suffer the same fate as Icarus who flew too close to the sun and tumbled from the sky, writes Grant Nulle.