Defending the Slumlord
The owner of ghetto housing differs little from any other purveyor of low-cost merchandise, writes Walter Block.
Capital and Interest Theory
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The Role Played by Unemployed Factors of Production in the First Stages of the Boom
The beginning of a new credit expansion runs across remainders of preceding malinvestment and malemployment, not yet obliterated in the course of t
The Market Economy as Affected by the Recurrence of the Trade Cycle
People rebel against the insight that the malinvestment and overconsumption of the boom period are the cause of the bust.
27. Interest Rates
From Part I of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: “The History of Money and Bank
Defending the Speculator
The truth of the matter is that, far from causing starvation and famines, it is the speculator who prevents them.
Credit Expansion vs. Simple Inflation
There are instances in which the methods of genuine credit expansion are used for an utterly different purpose: to allow the government to take adv
Only the Austrians Understand Interest Rates
Recorded at The Mises Circle in Manhattan, on May 22nd, 2010.
Inflated: How Money and Debt Built the American Dream
Recorded at The Mises Circle in Manhattan, on May 22nd, 2010.
Malinvestment, Not Overinvestment, Causes Booms
The whole entrepreneurial class is in the position of a master builder whose task it is to erect a building out of a limited supply of building mat
