Booms and Busts

The homeownership rate is now back where it was forty years ago.

Jeff Deist and Martin Armstrong discuss Armstrong's story—both as an economic forecaster and as a thorn in the side of federal prosecutors.

Just in case you have any thoughts that people at the Fed might have become slightly less dovish on inflation, rest assured, they have not. 

The shale oil industry may simply be the next (Austrian) textbook example of malinvestment. 

Interviewed by host Albert Lu, Mark Thornton talks about the collapse in oil prices.

Our #1 show of the year is Patrick Barron in a two-part interview on the end of US dollar supremacy.

One thing the Chinese regime has not managed to do is erase the Chinese fondness for saving money. But in America, where over one-third of the population is on public assistance, it spends as much as possible.

Research is not just the way we add to the body of knowledge left by previous generations, but is also an effective means of engaging and challenging the ideas of mainstream economics.

Remember Peak Oil? Yeah, that's long over. 

Are Rising Subprime Mortgages a Small Sign of Big Things to Come?