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Do Falling Prices Cause or Predict a Recession?

Booms and BustsInflationBusiness Cycles

Blog12/05/2022

An upcoming recession likely will lead to falling asset prices. But these price decreases do not cause recessions, but rather are a result of them.

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Deflation Is Not a Problem: Reversing It Is

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Blog12/01/2022

Keynesian economists claim that deflation is as bad or worse than inflation. But deflation not only reverses inflation's bad effects but also allows new wealth creation.

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Do "Technology Shocks" Create the Boom-Bust Cycles?

Booms and BustsCentral BanksMonetary PolicyBusiness Cycles

Blog11/10/2022

The 2004 Nobel Prize in economics was awarded to two economists for their claim that "technology shocks" cause boom-bust cycles. They have it wrong.

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Declining Prices Do Not Destroy Wealth; They Enable Its Creation

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Blog11/08/2022

Falling prices ultimately lead to an increase in savings and to the creation of new wealth.

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Does Bank Lending by Itself Set Off Boom and Bust Cycles?

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Blog10/12/2022

What happens when banks lend money? It depends the lending process itself. If lending comes about because of an expansion of credit, then it creates problems.

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Despite Their Hubris, Monetary Authorities Do Not Have Total Control

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Blog09/22/2022

While officials in the White House, Treasury, and the Fed give the appearance of being in control, but in truth, they cannot undo the damage they have done.

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Do People Accept Money Because Government Endorses It?

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Blog09/22/2022

Why does money have value? Typical economists claim that money is valuable because the government declares it so. But that is impossible, given the true origins of money, which are best explained by Austrian economists.

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Does Capitalism Itself Create Economic Instability or Is Central Banking the Culprit?

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Blog09/20/2022

Post-Keynesians believe that capitalism is internally unstable, leading to necessary intervention by the central bank. Austrians see that as backward reasoning, as policies by the central bank to create credit from nothing is the problem

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