How the Fed Undermines Prosperity

Tags: Business Cycles, Booms and Busts, The Fed

10/28/2023 George Ford Smith

The boom-and-bust cycles are not natural to a market economy, contra Keynes. Instead, government through monetary manipulation creates them—and then politicians blame markets themselves.

Original Article: How the Fed Undermines Prosperity

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