But if you follow the Austrian recipe of allowing liquidation of bankrupt firms and debt, allowing prices to fall without monetary inflation, not propping up employment or subsidizing unemployment, and not discouraging hoarding, you will end up with the quickest possible recovery and minimize the magnitude of economic pain.
The bonds will be backed by the usual way that the government gets money, which is to tax it or inflate it away.
One of our top priorities must be to get rid of a monetary system that contributes to artificial money creation and credit expansion and thus to recurring boom-bust episodes in production and employment.
The Panic of 1819 lasted about three years — the Great Depression lasted well over a decade. When looking for solutions to our current mess, we should study a winning team.
What a warped view of how the market economy works, to think that savings and foreign investment can cripple an economy.
Incessant creation of fiat money by government central banks will serve to engender more speculative booms to lure investors into financial ruin.
The Oracle admits that the printing of paper money is inflationary, but being a consistent proponent of expanding government, he constantly dismisses gold and proposals to return America to a gold standard.
The German hyperinflation was the result of a policy that considered the financing of government debt by an accelerating increase in the money stoc
Government-controlled fiat money is fraudulent money.
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan tried to exonerate himself from the housing boom and bust. Even though more and more analysts are realizing that Greenspan’s low interest rates fueled the bubble, the ex-maestro himself uses statistics to defend his record.
