Financial Markets

How a credit-driven expansion has fed the stock-market boom. (Analysis by Sean Corrigan)

So long as the Fed has the power to print, the boom-bust cycle is here to stay. (Paper by Frank Shostak)

Regulators claim to guarantee equality of  information, but no market can live up to that standard.

Government errors caused the problems and they still do. (Commentary by James R. Barth)
 

The Fed has pumped up the stock market, setting in motion certain inevitable consequences. (George Reisman provides an Austrian perspective)
 

Government policies discourage saving, but in a free market there is no optimal trade-off with consumption. (An excerpt from an interview with Richard K. Vedder.)

Economists and their crystal balls.

The perils of Social Security reform.

The government controls the money it spends.

The public debate on Social Security is wildly off track.