Booms and Busts

The problem is a confused reading of how markets work, and how governments continue with deficit spending in the service of favored interest groups.

Ludwig von Mises Memorial Lecture from the 2014 Austrian Economics Research Conference presented by J. Huston McCulloch. Ludwig von Mises’s writings contain many insights that are very relevant for mainstream macroeconomics.

There is trouble lurking in each of the book’s four chapters. The text gets off on a wrong foot as Bernanke overviews the origins and purposes of the Fed.

This article analyzes the housing boom witnessed in the UK economy from 1994–2007 in light of the Austrian theory of the business cycle (ABC). Ludwig von Mises’s parable of the “bricks” is utilized to provide empirical 

This paper identifies merger waves as parts of Austrian-type business cycles. According to Austrian business cycle theory, when loan rates are reduced below their natural level through bank credit expansion, this falsifies the monetary calculation of capitalist-entrepreneurs, and investments are initiated that calculation showed were not profitable before the interest rate reduction.

Low interest rates combined with high-risk fractional reserve banking creates a powder keg on which we’re sitting today, writes Frank Hollenbeck.

Many still blame “deregulation” for the financial disaster that was caused by an intricate web of federal laws and regulations, writes Dale Steinre

The Argentine government has a habit of spending without restraint and then trying to cheat its creditors.

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