Inflation

Jeff and Bob discuss the dynamics of the housing market in the context of a recent talk by Alex Pollock.

No matter the historical era, governments have excelled at one thing: debasing their own currency. Rome was no exception, as Roman government excesses required inflation—lots of inflation.

Current rates of inflation are worse than what the government claims. Not surprisingly, the government gains when people are fooled.

The Fed is, effectively, a car driving at night, very fast, with no headlights. That is a real threat, probably to an unprecedented degree.

In this episode, Ryan McMaken and Tho Bishop dive into the politics of inflation.

In this episode of Radio Rothbard, Ryan and Tho trade predictions for the year ahead.

Central bankers are being disingenuous when they insist that rising prices are a temporary phenomenon.

Millions of Americans have no conception of economics, and simply don’t believe tradeoffs exist.

Chapter 19 from The Costs of War: America's Pyrrhic Victories, John V. Denson, ed. (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction, Publishers, 1999, pp. 433–53.

In a May 2021 essay, Curtis Yarvin (a.k.a. Mencius Moldbug) argues that the American economy runs on an inflation machine.