Vijay Boyapati

Vijay Boyapati is a former Google engineer. In 2007 he started Operation Live Free or Die, a grassroots organization to help Ron Paul’s 2008 presidential campaign. Since 2009 he has devoted himself to studying Austrian economics.

Articles

Why Credit Deflation Is More Likely than Mass Inflation: An Austrian Overview of the Inflation Versus Deflation Debate

12/31/2010 Libertarian Papers Vijay Boyapati

Volume 2, Article 43 (2010) 1. Introduction WILL THE US ECONOMY FACE a sustained period of inflation or deflation, or perhaps hyperinflation? This is the subject of the great monetary debate of our...

The Economics of Healthcare Reform

06/01/2010 Free Market Vijay Boyapati

The Free Market 28, no. (June 2010) A common argument advanced in support of greater government intervention in the American healthcare market is that a large and growing fraction of the gross...

The Politics of Deflation

01/19/2011 Mises Daily Vijay Boyapati

The Fed was created for the benefit of the banking class, and while it remains under the control of that class it will not pursue a policy that would lead to a breakdown in the monetary system from which the banking class profits.

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Media

Vijay Boyapati Explains Why He Was Right About Inflation in 2010 and Bitcoin in 2018

05/18/2021 Robert P. Murphy Vijay Boyapati

Vijay Boyapati explains why other Austrians should have listened to him in 2010 when he warned that their inflation predictions were wrong.

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