FDR followed up on Hoover’s attempted inflation by closing the banks and plotting an unprecedented inflation that ended in the paper money we use today.
Booms and Busts
Sponsored by Mark L. Hart III
The New Skyscraper Curse
Thanks to cheap money and malinvestment, new record-setting skyscrapers are being planned and built as the global fiat-money-induced boom continues
How Central Banks Are Waging War on Your Savings
Easy money policy hurts most people, particularly workers and savers, and redistributes their wealth to the ruling elites.
Echoes of 1937 in the Current Economic Cycle
The history of the last great US monetary experiment in “quantitative easing” from 1934 to 1937 suggests that things could end badly.
The Economics of Freedom
Interviewed by host John O’Donnell, Mark Thornton discusses the state of the economy and jobs, why inflation will continue to erode the quali
Europe and Deflation Paranoia
The European Central Bank is deeply concerned about deflation, and deflation paranoia is a convenient way to justify propping up southern Europe, w
The Entire Banking and Money System Is Broken
Interviewed by host Andy Duncan, Jeff Deist discusses how Austrian economics can help make people wealthier, and how to gain practical knowledge ab
Monetary Chaos
Interviewed by host Tom Woods, Joe Salerno talks about the Fed, the Great Depression, currency wars, deflation, and why governments hate cash.