A Behind the Scenes Look at the November Jobs Report
Today's BLS employment data release may not be as "solid" as the media are reporting.
Booms and Busts
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Will Brazil Impeach Rousseff?
As the economy worsens, the Brazilian Congress this week announced that it will impeach the president of Brazil. Unfortunately, impeaching President Dilma Rousseff by itself will do little to fix Brazil’s economy when Brazilian politics remains dominated by anti-market forces.
The Week In Review: November 7, 2015
There were many state and local elections in the US this week, but few of them will result in anything that will combat widely held and popular errors about central banking, drug prohibition, and the global environment.
Yellen on Negative Interest Rates
In Janet Yellen's Q&A with the House Financial Services Committee, Rep. Tom Emmer asked about the possibility and consequences of negative interest rates.
How Beijing and the West Work Together to Manipulate the Global Currency War
Historically, reserve currencies have arisen without the help of the IMF, but we’re now witnessing a situation in which the IMF may declare the Chinese yuan a “reserve currency” as part of a larger game by global elites to manipulate global exchange rates.
The Mises Week in Review: October 31, 2015
The Fed's Federal Open Market Committee renewed its commitment to easy money this week. The Fed will pretend to be committed to raising rates while doing nothing, and its ongoing war against deflation will continue to make us poorer.
Today’s War Against Deflation Will Make Us Poorer
The problem with the central bank's easy-money policies is not primarily that it leads to rising prices. The big problem is that it leads to the crippling of the wealth creation process and the movement of resources from productive to non-productive sectors.
There’s More to Money than Hyperinflation
It’s common to paint Austrians as doom-and-gloom prophets of economic collapse, with little to offer besides paranoid predictions of hyperinflations and monetary collapses lurking around every corner.
The Fed Can’t Raise Rates, But Must Pretend It Will
The Fed has a difficult balancing act. To maintain the current easy-money induced boom, it must not raise rates. But at the same time, it must also act as if it might raise rates some day, or savers will abandon the credit markets.
