Currency Failures from Argentina to Zimbabwe: A Brief History of Inflation
Recorded at the Mises Circle at Furman Universityon November 13th, 2010.
Money and Banks
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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.
The Fed, Gold, and Troubled Times
Recorded at the Ludwig von Mises Institute; Auburn, Alabama; 8 October 2010.
Friday Night Lights(out): Bank Failures in Slow Motion
Recorded at the Ludwig von Mises Institute; Auburn, Alabama; 8 October 2010.
Money: Sound and Unsound
Ludwig von Mises said that there can never be too much of a good theory. Salerno proves it in this sweeping and nearly comprehensive book on applied Austrian monetary theory. He uses the Mises/Rothbard theory of money to reinterpret historical...
The Business Cycle Explained in 1755
Richard Cantillon saw the essence of the business-cycle problem long ago. When the government's national bank inflates the money supply by increasing the supply of banknotes, he writes, it reduces the rate of interest and can increase the price of stocks. This is a corrupt process.
The Michael Sproul Doctrine
The Wikipedia entry on the real-bills doctrine advances the controversial proposition that banks can increase the quantity of money without diminishing the purchasing power of each unit. I will refer to it as the Sproul doctrine.
