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“In other words, you cannot accurately forecast a recession or financial panic by looking at either the announcement or the completion of the world’s tallest building”

03/27/2015 Mark Thornton

"In other words, you cannot accurately forecast a recession or financial panic by looking at either the announcement or the completion of the world’s tallest building"

So The Economist apparently does not think too "highly" of my skyscraper theory

Brazil: Victim of Vulgar Keynesianism

Tags: Booms and Busts, Global Economy

03/27/2015 Antony P. Mueller

Brazil's government has long been devoted to the idea that more government spending will create more economic prosperity. For a time, it seemed to work, but now reality and disillusionment have set in.

Europeans Overcoming Their Apoplithorismosphobia

Tags: Monetary Theory, Money and Banking, Booms and Busts, The Fed, Money and Banks

03/26/2015 Mark Thornton

Europeans have long been fearful of the prospects of price deflation, but now that it has arrived they have embraced it.

Yellen--Fed Trys to Figure Out How to Raise Interest Rates

Fed Tries to Figure Out How to Raise Interest Rates by a 1/4 of 1%

Tags: Calculation and Knowledge, Monetary Theory, Money and Banking, Booms and Busts, The Fed, Money and Banks

03/26/2015 Mark Thornton

The Fed has been messing with interest rates for a century and suddenly they have forgotten how to raise interest rates?

Recent Economic Data Shows the Good Side of Deflation

Tags: Money and Banking, Booms and Busts, Money and Banks

03/20/2015 Edin Mujagic

Data from Japan, Spain, Greece, and the Netherlands all suggest that deflation is not the disaster many economists suggest it is. In fact, there's good reason to believe that economies really start to take off when prices fall the most.

A Necessary Correction in the Oil Industry

Tags: Booms and Busts, Global Economy, U.S. Economy

03/18/2015 Peter Wong

Oil prices have fallen largely due to economic and political realities in China and the US. The resulting correction is a good thing, and, in spite of what many panicky central bankers think, falling oil prices are a good thing.

Is the Coast Clear?

Tags: Business Cycles, Money and Banking, Booms and Busts, The Fed, Financial Markets

03/17/2015 Mark Thornton

Is the Coast Clear? I don't think so.

Superlative Skyscraper Sales

Tags: Business Cycles, Booms and Busts, Financial Markets

03/16/2015 Mark Thornton

Skyscrapers Selling at Superlative Prices

Joseph Salerno Interviewed on Gold Standard, Fiat Money

Tags: Business Cycles, Gold Standard, Money and Banking, Booms and Busts, The Fed

03/15/2015 Mark Thornton

Joseph Salerno Interviewed on Gold Standard, Fiat Money...

Government Barriers to Economic Growth

Tags: Interventionism, Big Government, Booms and Busts, Financial Markets

03/12/2015 John Tamny

The 2015 Henry Hazlitt Memorial Lecture.

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