Booms and Busts

The boom-and-bust cycles are not natural to a market economy, contra Keynes. Instead, government through monetary manipulation creates them—and then politicians blame markets themselves.

Popular economic thinking holds that consumer spending is the most important driver of the economy. Actually, demand can’t exist without something first being supplied.

Fractional reserve banking allows the Federal Reserve to manipulate the money supply, leading to booms and busts. Central banking is not a defense against business cycles; it is a major cause of them.

As the US economy sours, look for a wave of new bankruptcies. The Fed cannot pull any rabbits out of its monetary hat this time.

Forget Vegas sports betting for reckless speculation. When the Fed officials make projections, the markets assume they are accurate. However, as Jerome Powell himself admits, forecasts are speculative at best.

No matter the situation, bank CEOs believe that the Big Score is just around the corner. Then reality hits.

Decades of low interest rates have ruined saving in the US economy, and banks are going to pay dearly for it.

Ryan and Tho are joined by economist Mark Thornton to take a look at why so many economists keep telling us the economy is in great shape.

While unemployment currently is low and the rate of inflation has fallen somewhat, Bidenomics is setting off a boom that is unsustainable. We know what happens next.

Hollywood can create stories from thin air, but when the film industry creates malinvestments, there is a bust in the future.