Why the Meltdown Should Have Surprised No One

03/14/2009 Peter Schiff

This is perhaps the most compelling and accessible explanation of boom-bust economics ever given, and by an economist who is widely acknowledged as a prophet. The Henry Hazlitt Memorial Lecture. From the 2009 Austrian Scholars Conference at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama.

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