Lessons from Cyprus
The first lesson to be learned is not to trust pronouncements about the safety of banks.
Global Economy
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Sweden’s Great Depression
From the session on “Studies in Economic History,” presented at the Austrian Economics Research Conference.
An Investigation into Great Britain’s Commercial Crisis of 1857 and the Preceding Business Cycle
From the session on “Studies in Economic History,” presented at the Austrian Economics Research Conference.
Cyprus and the Unraveling of Fractional-Reserve Banking
A few more banking crises will likely cause confidence in the fractional-reserve banking system to evaporate.
Driving the Market Process: Why Entrepreneurial “Alertness” Trumps “Creative Destruction”
From the session on “Advances in the Theory of Entrepreneurship,” presented at the Austrian Economics Research Conference.
The Economics of World Government
A transcription of a wide-ranging lecture, full of insight as well as humor, by the great Austrian economist and social theorist Hans-Hermann Hoppe, discussing the state, anarchy, democracy, monarchy, crime, security, and more. Delivered at the 2009 Mises University.
Germany Repatriates Its Gold
Several Austrian economists respond to the German Central Bank's move to repatriate its foreign-held gold.
Fighting for Oil?
You don't need to be a "conspiracy theorist" to see what's going on here. All you have to do is be willing to use your eyes.
The Oslo Housing Bubble Syndrome
This psychological phenomenon is the “irrational” response of people living in a bubble economy.
The Myth of Austerity
The problem in Europe (and the USA) is not too much but too little austerity — or its complete absence.
