The Ethics of Money Production: Accessible and Wise
Jörg Guido Hülsmann shows us how to fix money.
Money and Banks
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The Current Crisis: Money, Sound and Unsound
More and more journalists and economists are calling for a return to "sound money." Joseph Salerno's new book provides a rigorous examination of what sound money really means.
America’s Road to Financial Ruin
The strength of Whalen's book is that his monetary history, like Rothbard's, is about people, not policies. While Keynesians talk about unknowable constructs like aggregate demand, Whalen's story turns on the actions of people.
Modern Banking: Creating Booms and Busts
Deposit banking rests on the bank honoring property rights. Loan banking rests on making good loans that will pay off. But when loan banking and deposit banking merged, the temptation to loan out much more than was actually in the bank arose.
Walk Away: The Rise and Fall of the Home-Ownership Myth
Housing, a central priority for government policy for many decades, collapsed in 2008; even today, millions of homes are under water. This poses many economic and ethical issues. This elegant and fact-filled book by Doug French examines the...
Currency Failures from Argentina to Zimbabwe: A Brief History of Inflation
Recorded at the Mises Circle at Furman Universityon November 13th, 2010.
How ‘Mainstream’ Economics Miseducates About Money and the Fed
Recorded at the Mises Circle at Furman University, November 13th, 2010.
Bank Failures in Slow Motion
We've only had 294 failures this cycle, but it is a big deal: adjusted to current dollars, the Depression banking crisis was $100 billion, the S&L crisis was $923 billion, and the current crisis is nearly $8 trillion.
Recapitalizing the Banks but Decapitating the Economy
Recorded at the Ludwig von Mises Institute; Auburn, Alabama; 8 October 2010.
