“Vincent Reinhart of the American Enterprise Institute talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the government interventions and non-interventions into financial markets in 2008. Conventional wisdom holds that the failure […]
“Vincent Reinhart of the American Enterprise Institute talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the government interventions and non-interventions into financial markets in 2008. Conventional wisdom holds that the failure […]
“President Roosevelt’s second offensive against the depression has been launched in the form of an amendment to the farm bill. This amendment provides a manner in which the credit of […]
“A return to the gold standard by the United States within the next five years now seems likely, because that move would help the nation solve a variety of economic, […]
“European Central Bank President Jean- Claude Trichet said the world’s central bankers are united in fighting inflation fueled by surging commodity prices and fast- growing emerging economies. “There is a […]
“What is needed most is global financial stability. Many worry that the dollar-centred monetary system is sick, leaving some to present radical proposals. Judy Shelton from Atlas Economic Research Foundation, […]
“J. Bradley Jansen spoke at the Mises Institute’s Austrian Scholar’s Conference in 2005 on bank secrecy and financial privacy.” See it here. Image by Michal Marcol / FreeDigitalPhotos.net.
“F.A. Hayek said that his biggest regret in a lifetime of writing was that he never wrote a book-length refutation of Keynesian economics. He seriously doubted that Keynesian style planning […]
“Economists have long disagreed seriously about the costs and benefits of government budget deficits and debt. Following the Second World War, a clash between Keynesian and―orthodox fiscal policy views arose. […]
Over on the Coordination Problem blog, a number of scholars in the field of monetary theory are having an interesting discussion on the topic of Hayek and deflationary spirals. I […]
“First, the question is not whether the Federal Reserve should raise its target inflation rate above 2% per year. The question is whether the Federal Reserve should raise its target […]