Booms and Busts

Presented at the Mises Circle in Manhattan, hosted by the Ludwig von Mises Institute and sponsored by the Story Garschina Charitable Fund, and Anon

This book contains the oddest sentence I have ever read about the current financial crisis, or for that matter about any financial crisis.

This lecture by Philipp Bagus was presented at the 2012 Mises University in Auburn, Alabama. 

The US government cannot use hyperinflation to escape the the promises it  made to retirees.

The Austrians in the late 1920s and early '30s were like scientists trying to address witch doctors.

The ECB has once again come to the rescue by cutting interest rates in order to forestall a collapse of the European economy.

Supporters of Keynesian economics sometimes claim it to be a crude caricature of the Master that he thought the government has only to spend more money to get us out of a depression and that getting us into debt doesn't

Tim Jackson, a professor of sustainable development at the University of Surrey, suggests that greater productivity may have reached its “nat

What the government should do about the bust that follows the boom is maintain a strict hands-off policy.

Today’s worldwide fiat-money regime has effects that extend beyond what most people would imagine, writes Thorsten Polleit.