The Fed

Tom DiLorenzo appears the Alan Nathan Show.

Tom DiLorenzo appears on WILKOW! with Andrew Wilkow to discuss Austrian Economics and the Federal Reserve.

Continued bailouts undermine the entire economy by rewarding financial failure and discouraging productive economic activity.

Even as the Federal Reserve continues to manipulate interest rates to “fight” the results of the business cycle, Austrian economics teaches that business cycles occur because of the manipulation. They never learn.

The current explosion in rental and home prices is the direct result of government intervention aimed at making it easier to buy a house. Mises wrote that government intervention into the market tends to make things worse. He was right.

Bob critiques MMT godfather Warren Mosler's recent interview where he argued that the Fed rate hikes have been fueling the strong economy.

The American people have the great pleasure of electing either Joe Biden or Donald Trump as president this year.

For this week’s episode, I wanted to find something familiar in the form of a “saying” to try and convey my thoughts about the economy as it stands

Economics textbooks describe monetary policy as though it were administered by experts who know how to fix problems in the economy. In truth, there is no such thing as “monetary policy”; what we have is the Federal Reserve engaging in wealth transfers.

The position of new home buyers in 2024 is unprecedented. Not only are prices at record highs, but the new generation of prospective home buyers can’t remember a time without cheap mortgages.