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"Financial Repression is the name we give to all the different government interventions in which governments seek to improve their own bargaining position with financial markets."

Professor Joseph Salerno, Academic Vice President at the Mises Institute, was installed to the new Peterson-Luddy Chair in Austrian Economics on March 13, 2015 at the 2015 Austrian Economics Research Conference.

Like a good guy in an old Western determined to put things aright, George Selgin has once again arrived on the scene shooting from the hip--an

It was just a matter of time before Western governments used the trumped up “War on Terror” as an excuse to drastically ratchet up the

All the named lectures from this year's Austrian Economics Research Conference

Mises Daily Friday by Edin Mujagic:

Data from Japan, Spain, Greece, and the Netherlands all suggest that deflation is not the disaster many economists suggest it is. In fact, there's good reason to believe that economies really start to take off when prices fall the most.

For those new to Austrian economics, there are few modern scholars whose work I would recommend more enthusiastically than Salerno’s.

A fashionable approach to monetary policy these days, even in free-market circles, involves "NGDP targeting." 

To pay its debts, Greek government, "busy thinking of new ways to raid its own population."

Gustave de Molinari learned of “the destructive apparatus of the civilized State” from the French Revolution, “naively undertaken to establish a regime of liberty and prosperity for the benefit of humanity, end[ing]…in an increase in the servitude and burdens.”