Understanding Argentina’s Coming Default
The Argentine government has a habit of spending without restraint and then trying to cheat its creditors.
Booms and Busts
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Argentina Is Now In Default, But There Is Life After Default
The Wall Street Journal declares it a do
Understanding Argentina’s Coming Default
The problem is that Argentina had decided to once again prefer deficits and unrestrained government spending to paying its obligations.
Systematic Risk, Missing Gold Flows, and the Panic of 1907
his paper investigates the potential systemic risks posed to the U.S. securities markets by the banking crisis during the Panic of 1907. Past studies of 1907 have focused almost exclusively on the banking crisis.
Review of Engineering the Financial Crisis: Systemic Risk and the Failure of Regulation by Jeffrey Friedman and Wladimir Kraus
Jeffrey Friedman and Wladamir Kraus attempt to separate the wheat from the chaff by sizing up these theories next to some hard facts. The result is enlightening.
The Recession of 1990: A Comment
Arthur Hughes seeks to apply the Austrian theory of the business cycle to the recession of 1990.
Austrian Business Cycle Theory: Variations on a Theme
In a recent study, Keeler (2001) attempts to provide historical/empirical evidence for the Austrian business cycle theory by examining the effect of interest-rate changes on various components
Review of The Subprime Solution: How Today’s Global Financial Crisis Happened, and What to Do About It. By Robert J. Shiller
It is with great trepidation and anticipation that we review Robert Shiller’s new book, The Subprime Solution. Trepidation as to the causes of the problem, which were expected to take a behavioral spin.
Austrian Business Cycle Theory and the Global Financial Crisis: Confessions of a Mainstream Economist
Austrian business cycle theory has a legitimate claim to being the most authoritative explanation of the recent global financial and economic crisis.
