Housing Bubble on the Thames
With London England the new place to be for oil-rich Russian oligarchs and Middle Eastern sheiks, the question going around is whether house prices ar
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Peter Klein in Madrid
Peter Klein was recently in Spain at a conference of the Strategic Management Society and gave a guest lecture in Jesús Huerta de Soto’s class.
The Road to Poverty Is Paved with Small Inflations
The value of Venezuela’s currency plummeted to record lows on the black market last week, with 100 ‘strong’ bolivars exchanging for $1 (ten times l
War is Good for the Economy: Defense Stocks Soar
Well, war is good for certain sectors of the economy. For example: weapons manufacturing.
Uncle Sam’s Annual Borrowing 14 Times Worse Than Thought
Lots of people like to concentrate on the deficit when looking at public finances.
Kirchener to Investors: “You’re Meanies for Lending Me Money”
Well, she didn’t actually say that, but she might as well have.
Greenspan on Gold (again)
Alan Greenspan once vigorously defended the gold standard, before taking command of th
More European “Growth” Shenanigans
Europe got some good news in early June as the EU changed its statistical guidelines on how to compute GDP.
Does ‘Neoliberalism’ Make Psychopaths Rise to the Top?
Whenever you see someone use the word “neoliberalism” you are probably dealing with someone who spends most of his or her time in a lef
