Financial Markets

I was speaking to a banker this past weekend who put the blame on the subprime problem squarely on the campaign against “

The turmoil in financial markets is eliciting the usual response from the central bankers, all up there in their Hueys, ‘Die Walkuere’

The turmoil in the credit markets now emanating from the collapse of the housing bubble can be understood in the light of the theory of the busines

Recorded at Mises University 2007.

It follows that liquidity could come under severe pressure if the Fed decides to cling to the current fed funds rate target whilst the economy is weakening.

Aside from the error identified by Shostak this morning, another error concerning financial markets is th

The owner of capital does not choose between more risky, less risky, and safe investments. He is forced, by the very operation of the market economy, to invest his funds in such a way as to supply the most urgent needs of the consumers to the best possible extent.

I have written before for the blog about the emerging “sovereign wealth funds” (see: 1

Fannie Mae is representative of all that's wrong with central planning institutions: it is a government-created conduit for carefully crafted financial and market socialism that the bureaucrats uphold for the purpose of propping up their fantasies for pandemic social engineering.

One myth upheld even by many people who has a basically sound outlook on monetary issues is the view that an inverted yield curve (where short term