Seventeen Years of Boom and Bust
Appropriate at this time is an overview of the Federal Reserve’s booms and busts.
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Is the United States in a Liquidity Trap?
To suggest that people have an unlimited demand for money is not realistic, given that people require goods to support their lives and well-being.
The Good Deficits
The Depression marked a turning point in American public policy. From this point on we hear no more about balanced budgets.
The Rich Aren’t Dispossessing the Rest
If we consider individual people instead of statistical categories, we must reject the leftists' conclusion that the rich are increasingly dispossessing the rest.
Business Tides: The Newsweek Era of Henry Hazlitt
A lone voice of economic sanity in the United States after World War II was Henry Hazlitt, who had moved in 1946 from the New York Times editorial page to Newsweek magazine, where he wrote until the late 1960s. He wrote a column every week on...
Rothbard Revises the History of the Great Depression
We now see, thanks to Rothbard's insights, that the Hoover-Roosevelt period was really a continuum.
My Methodological Journey
My journey away from neoclassical epistemology began with my reading of works by F.A. Hayek.
America’s Greatest Industrial Transformation
The period between 1873 and 1894 remains one of the most misunderstood and debated in all of American economic history. To some, this era represents the greatest phase of industrial growth in the country's history.
Ethics and the Decision to Walk Away
What should you give up in order to make your payments? Food, education, transportation, funds to live on in old age?
The Transformation of the American Economy, 1865-1914
The Gilded Age, lasting from 1865 to World War I, was an era of economic growth never before seen in the history of the world. The standard of living of the modern age was born during this time of phenomenal transition. Lives lengthen. Wealth...
