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Frank Shostak

Bubble activities are not self-funded; they require money "out of thin air," which is employed to divert real savings to them from wealth generators.

Thorsten Polleit

The downward manipulation of the interest rate drives a wedge between the (real) market interest rate and the societal time-preference rate, and therefore wreaks havoc with the economy's intertemporal production structure.

Christopher P. Casey

Austrian economists are not fooled, because they reject the idea of empirical data in the validation of theory in the social sciences.

Frank Shostak

We suggest that inflation is not rises in prices as such but the debasement of money.

Frank Shostak

Obama's actions have already laid the foundation for a gigantic bubble and a further weakening of economic fundamentals.

Frank Shostak

If anything, all the rescue packages and all the massive pumping by the Fed has made things much worse as far as the underlying economic bottom line is concerned.

Jonathan Wyse

Meanwhile, such a system of "extended liability" for homeowners would have prevented the extra stress on banks caused by negative-equity defaulters. Because these people would know they are paying back the full sum either way, they would instead keep the house and pay back the (albeit, exorbitant when considering the plummeting value of their home) debt over time — perhaps while keeping their home, if they had proof of income.

Christopher Westley

"The 'paradox of thrift' is actually an essential liquidation process that characterizes economic corrections."

Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.

The bonds will be backed by the usual way that the government gets money, which is to tax it or inflate it away.