Booms and Busts

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Soham Patil

A recent CNN broadcast claimed that deflation was bad for the economy and that we need to adjust to higher prices. As usual, the journalistic “experts” got it backward.

J.R. MacLeod

President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador recently spoke at the Conservative Political Action

Patrick Barron

Far from being an “automatic stabilizer” that mitigates recessions by engaging in “countercyclical” spending, the welfare state actually makes recessions longer and deeper. Time to acknowledge that fact and do away with it altogether.

David Brady, Jr.

The Federal Reserve claims to be independent and politically neutral. But since its actions have political ramifications, it is impossible for the Fed to be either.

James Anthony

The United States survived the first Great Depression, although it permanently changed the role of government. Will excessive government spending and money creation lead to Great Depression II?

Jonathan Newman

As the Fed engages in rollercoaster monetary policies, the errors that build up during the Fed-induced boom turn into a veritable “circus of errors.”

Artis Shepherd

Stoked by ultra-loose monetary policy from the Federal Reserve, capital markets have been in a persistent bubble for several years.