Jay Taylor: Austrian Economics and the Next (Bigger) Crash

02/27/2015 Jeff Deist Jay Taylor

Jeff Deist and Jay Taylor, host of Taylor’s Hard Money Advisers, discuss the role of Austrian economics in understanding the market crash of 2008; and how some institutional investors used Austrian theory to get very rich shorting that crash. If you are interested in markets, business cycle theory, and what Austrian theory has to say about the even bigger bubble created by the Fed since 2008, you will enjoy this episode.

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