Monetary Theory

Recorded at Mises University 2009.

Recorded at Mises University 2009.

Almost invariably, furthermore, the union is not trying to discover the market rate, but to impose various arbitrary "principles" of wage determination, such as "keeping up with the cost of living," a "living wage," the "going rate" for comparable labor in other firms or industries, an annual average "productivity" increase, "fair differentials," and so forth.

Careful examination shows that, rather than protecting the economy, it is loose monetary policies that are the key source of boom-bust economic cycles.

It is savings — not demand — that enables the expansion of production of goods and services.

Professor White's lecture showed that, historically, a free-market approach to the banking industry is less prone to crises and operates efficiently through the invisible hand of the market.

Freedom works; market prices guide people to make the necessary adjustments after a big surprise.

There are only inflationists on Capital Hill and Obama has a bigger bag of boondoggles than FDR could have ever imagined.

Even if the "debt deflation" scenario is generally right, the absolute effect could be swamped by the relative effects, meaning that retirees on fixed dollar incomes could still get wiped out when their standard monthly expenses rise.

Government spending merely directs scarce factors of production away from their most productive uses.