The Inflationary Path to Despotism: The Mises Circle in Phoenix
From Ancient Rome through modern-day America, money inflation has been the means by which the state extracts wealth without recourse to taxation.
From Ancient Rome through modern-day America, money inflation has been the means by which the state extracts wealth without recourse to taxation.
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Every government-based stimulus that has ever been tried has failed. This one is no different except that the failure might end up even more catastrophic.
FDR followed up on Hoover’s attempted inflation by closing the banks and plotting an unprecedented inflation that ended in the paper money we use today.
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In 1946, as now, the government held up the threat of deflation to justify a policy of ultra-low interest rates.
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The Mises Circle meets in New York City for a working lunch at the University Club: One West 54th Street, New York, New York.
Mises Institute Members and guests, Faculty, and Students are invited.
Join the Mises Circle for its inaugural meeting, a “working lunch” on Saturday, March 4, 2006, from 10:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. at Maggiano’s Little Italy Restaurant in Houston, Texas.
To prevent future economic pain, what is required is the closure of all the Fed’s means of creating money out of “thin air.”