Booms and Busts

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Mark Thornton

Let us see how close this venture capitalist comes to putting a $3 trillion price tag on Amazon at its all-time high price.

Mark Thornton

Legendary investor Bill Gross calls on the Fed to bring on Milton Friedman's "helicopter money."

Ryan McMaken
We've replaced saving with consumer debt (i.e., mortgages) and a hope that people can continue to make the high payments every month. It's not a terribly wise long-term economic strategy, but it's one the Fed is banking on.
Jonathan Newman

What are the limits to Austrian Business Cycle Theory? Does it need help to explain business cycles?

C.Jay Engel

There's no need for pessimism over the idea that there is a recession ahead, and that the stock markets must plunge. No, this is the good news!

Brendan Brown

The Yen remains strong for a variety of reasons. Restrained monetary policy in Japan isn't one of them.

Mises Institute

Our greatest enemy today is the economic illiteracy and confusion on the part of those who insist on “planning,” “stabilizing,” and straitjacketing the economy.

Paul-Martin Foss

Ships aren’t cheap to purchase. But when financing is abnormally cheap and expectations of future business are rosy, it stands to reason that shipping companies would put in a raft of orders.

Ryan McMaken

Thanks to the great Tatsuya Iwakura, who has translated numerous books by Austrian economists into Japanese, The Austrian Theory of the Trade Cycle and Other Essays, edited by Richard Ebeling, is now available as a Kindle book in Japanese.