Money and Banks

Casual acquaintance with Ayn Rand’s ideas often involves the assumption that Rand would approve of Oliver Stone’s character Gordon Gekko (of “greed

Patents and copyrights are forms of immaterial “property” that grant to their owners exclusive control over the production and sale of a specified

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 26 July 2014.

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 22 July 2014.

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 21 July 2014.

After years of QE and other loose monetary policies, central banks are starting to

ECB’s Mario Draghi has taken over from Ben Bernanke as the world’s most enthusiastic money printer, writes Brendan Brown.

The European Central Bank’s recent move to negative interest rates is a sign that the ECB is hitting the panic button, writes Frank Hollenbeck.

In 1946, as now, the government held up the threat of deflation to justify a policy of ultra-low interest rates, writes James Grant.