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Are Expectations the Driving Force Behind Business Cycles?

Booms and BustsBusiness Cycles

Blog07/22/2019Frank Shostak

Even if business people learn to expect easy-money caused bubbles and busts — this would still not prevent the formation of a boom-bust cycle.

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A Conspiracy of Silence on The French Liberal School

Global EconomyWorld HistoryOther Schools of Thought

04/09/2019Mises Daily ArticlesJoseph T. Salerno

J.B. Say and the French Liberal School absorbed a method of approach that was, implicitly at least, subjectivist and individualist. And herein lies the reason for many modern critics' disparagement of the Liberal School.

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A Chinese Bomb: Are We Really on the Threshold of Another Global Financial Crisis?

Booms and BustsGlobal EconomyMoney and Banks

Blog02/25/2019Diego Santizo

The Chinese debt is overwhelming not simply because of the volume, but because the figure has quadrupled in seven years.

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A Rising Money Supply Doesn't Necessarily Lead to Rising Prices

Money and BanksMoney and Banking

Blog11/24/2018Frank Shostak

Increases in the money supply need not always be followed by general increases in prices, as prices are determined by both real and monetary factors.

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Argentina Sells Baloney for a Bailout

Central BanksGlobal EconomyMoney and Banking

05/09/2018Power & MarketJoseph T. Salerno

Surprise, surprise! With the peso continuing to drop like a stone against the U.S. dollar, Argentina has appealed to the IMF for emergency credit. In requesting the bailout, President Macri cited the sudden emergence of global factors beyond his control for the current plight of the...

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A Policy of Price Stability Leads to Instability

Money and BanksMoney and Banking

Blog05/09/2018Frank Shostak

Money is not neutral, and changes in the money supply set into motion a variety of unpredictable movements.

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Argentina Has a Chronic Problem with Monetary-Policy Failure

Money and BanksMoney and Banking

Blog05/08/2018Joseph T. Salerno

Argentina's president Mauricio Macri has been as bad as, if not worse than, his left-wing populist predecessor on the inflation front.

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Amity Shlaes on Silent Cal

U.S. History

04/27/2018Audio/VideoAmity ShlaesJeff Deist

Historian Amity Shlaes makes the libertarian case for Calvin Coolidge.

My Path to the Austrian School of Economics

Hans-Hermann Hoppe

There is no more stopping the Mises School. And when the truth finally wins out, because only what is true can also work smoothly in the long run, then the hour of the Austrian School of Economics will have come.

How California's Government Plans to Make Wildfires Even Worse

Ryan McMaken

The State of California is now forcing insurance companies to cover homeowners who put their houses in some of the most fire-prone areas. What could go wrong?

We Don't Need Sunday "Blue Laws"

Ryan McMaken

Advocates for "blue laws" want to impose more laws on shopkeepers. These moral crusaders should instead start by setting a good example, and stop watching football games, ordering pizzas, or filling up on gas on Sunday.

The Benefits of Free Trade Are Canceled Out by Domestic Interventionism

Carmen Elena Dorobăț

Trade agreements have thus become obsolete tokens of negotiation in larger geopolitical disputes, protectionist tools for managing and interfering with global trade flows.

How to Avoid Civil War: Decentralization, Nullification, Secession

Ryan McMaken

So long as we insist the federal government can force one law, one culture, and one sort of politics on all of America, the US is headed down the road of civil war. Only decentralization and separation can partly defuse the situation.