Money and Banks

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Thorsten Polleit

In its blind search for the "correct" interest-rate policy, the Fed can't succeed in extending the boom indefinitely.

Frank Shostak

A strong GDP growth rate, in most cases, is likely to be associated with the intensive squandering of the pool of real wealth.

Jesús Huerta de Soto

Expansions in credit and investment are only a problem when they result from inflationary monetary policy, and not from real saving.

Douglas French

Rothbard: "if proponents of the higher minimum wage were simply wrongheaded people of good will, they would not stop at $3 or $4 an hour, but indeed would pursue their dimwit logic into the stratosphere."

Vitaliy Katsenelson

When I left Soviet Russia in 1991, I thought I would never see a command-and-control economy again. I was wrong. Over the past decade the global economy has started to resemble one.

Jesús Huerta de Soto

As the credit expansion turns to bust, many capital goods remain unused, many investment processes cannot be completed, and capital goods produced are used in a manner not originally foreseen. A large portion of society’s scarce resources has been squandered.

Christopher Westley

Scratching beneath the surface of the debate around countercyclical capital buffers, we find the normal level of duplicity that characterizes most debates about monetary policy.

Frank Shostak

New York Fed Chief Dudley recently suggested asset bubbles "emerge from the way market participant’s process information and trade" — thus ignoring the role of the central bank.

Robert P. Murphy

Selgin thinks fractional reserve banking critics are akin to "flat-earthers", but he gets some important points wrong. 

Alasdair Macleod

John Law's disastrous Mississippi Company bubble can still instruct us today.