Money and Banks

In this interview, we ask economist (and Argentina native) Nicolás Cachanosky about the prospects for a lasting change to Argentina's highly inflationary and interventionist economy. 

It is no surprise that "inflation" is one of the major political issues this election cycle, but few know what inflation really is, let alone what causes it.

What we may call the “spending illusion” is perhaps the gravest error in the history of economic thought and has been deeply embedded in economics since the early twentieth century.

Even if we were to agree with the MMT advocates that MMT allows the economy to easily shift from privately-produced to government-produced goods and services, we still ask why people should be forced to purchase inferior goods.

Continued bailouts undermine the entire economy by rewarding financial failure and discouraging productive economic activity.

What we may call the “spending illusion” is perhaps the gravest error in the history of economic thought and has been deeply embedded in economics since the early twentieth century.

National Conservatives are a growing movement on the political right.

Continued bailouts undermine the entire economy by rewarding financial failure and discouraging productive economic activity.

Contrary to Milton Friedman’s thesis that the decline in the money supply caused the Great Depression, the real reason was the collapse of real savings, which was due to loose monetary policies by the Federal Reserve.

Economics textbooks describe monetary policy as though it were administered by experts who know how to fix problems in the economy. In truth, there is no such thing as “monetary policy”; what we have is the Federal Reserve engaging in wealth transfers.