A Pyrrhic End to 130 Years of Vicious Bad Money and Banking Crises
The current banking crises have deep roots in US financial history. Monetary authorities have engaged in inflationary behavior for more than a hundred years.
Booms and Busts
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The Failure of the Federal Reserve: The Covid Boom and Unnecessary Intervention
After years of inflationary intervention, the Federal Reserve has no more rabbits to pull out of the hat.
Does GDP Present an Accurate Picture of the Economy? Not Likely
The most popular measure of economic growth is GDP. However, GDP movement is driven by changes in the money supply, not real economic factors.
Paying the Piper: Time to Clean Up the Latest Malinvestments
Austrian business cycle theory points out that easy money leads to malinvestments. Once easy money disappears, the crash begins. Time to clean up malinvested assets.
Investing in Gold
Mark discusses something bigger than the Disney layoffs: the Wall Street Journal's frontpage article on investing in gold.
No, the Financial Crisis Is Not Over
As markets settle down after the last set of bank failures, political elites claim the crisis is behind us. But it is not over, not by a long shot.
Here’s What Mounting Corporate Layoffs Tell Us about the Economy
Ryan McMaken and Dr. Mark Thornton cover the state of the dollar and why employers are laying off their highest paid workers.
A Pyrrhic End to 130 Years of Vicious Bad Money and Banking Crises
The current banking crises have deep roots in US financial history. Monetary authorities have engaged in inflationary behavior for more than a hundred years.
How Government Schools Use Bad History to Promote the State
Ryan and Tho look at common American history myths baked into government school curricula.
The Failure of the Federal Reserve: The Covid Boom and Unnecessary Intervention
After years of inflationary intervention, the Federal Reserve has no more rabbits to pull out of the hat.
