Financial Markets

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Zach Bibeault

The inherent risk of the marketplace does not establish the marketplace as something that needs to be regulated and harnessed. On the contrary, inherent risk defines the market.

Robert P. Murphy

"The Keynesian model can't capture the fact that during the boom period, society 'eats the seed corn' through malinvestment."

Douglas French

"These guys weren't just taking a position and keeping their fingers crossed, they had to keep feeding their bets, even when the financial world (and their investors) thought they were nuts."

Douglas French

So no matter what GDP numbers the Commerce Department spins out, the interest rate Chairman Bernanke controls will stay low "for an extended period."

Mark Thornton

These are the people who said that there was no housing bubble, that there was no danger of financial crisis, and then that a financial crisis would not impact the real economy. These are the same people who said they needed a multitrillion dollar bailout of the financial industry, or we would get severe trouble in the economy.

Marius Gustavson

"This myopic focus on 'price stability' made policymakers blind to other possible pitfalls, such as the surge in credit and the rapid growth in asset prices, and the concomitant misallocation of resources led on by distorted price signals."

"The notion of self-accountability is being eliminated by so-called 'progressives' who believe it unfair to struggle."

Thorsten Polleit

It shouldn't come as a surprise if it eventually turns out that the real danger is, like so often in the past, inflation rather than default.