Government Intervention into International Currency Exchange Rates: Japan as a Case Study
Most government intervention into currency exchange rates create more problems than they solve. Japan's lost decades are a prime example of what can happen.
Financial Markets
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Short-Term Market Volatility Is Not Entirely Random
Typical teaching on stock prices says they are little more than a random walk. But people's purposeful actions are behind every economic transactions.
New York City Subways: The Woes of Socialist Enterprises
New York City’s subways have become a nightmare, with rampant crime, delays, derailments, and poorly capitalized. This is a gift from "backdoor socialism."
Central Banks Have Been Hedging Rampant Regulation. Will This End Now?
The latest bout of inflation has exposed how central banks around the world have used easy money policies to help cover for the economic drag created by the regulatory state.
Profits Are Not Random. They’re How Entrepreneurs Help Allocate Resources Efficiently.
The efficient market hypothesis, which is popular in neoclassical economics circles, holds that markets are so "efficient" that entrepreneurial profits are generated randomly.
Central Banks Have Been Hedging Rampant Regulation. Will This End Now?
The latest bout of inflation has exposed how central banks around the world have used easy money policies to help cover for the economic drag created by the regulatory state.
Profits Are Not Random. They’re How Entrepreneurs Help Allocate Resources Efficiently.
The efficient market hypothesis, which is popular in neoclassical economics circles, holds that markets are so "efficient" that entrepreneurial profits are generated randomly.
Austrian Economics and the Capital Asset Pricing Model: A Reconcilation?
Academic finance makes a lot of use of the capital asset pricing model (CAPM), but is it compatible with Austrian economics? Indeed, Austrians do have something to say, thanks to Mises and Rothbard and Austrian capital theory.
Like the Fed, the ECB Is Still a Long Way from “Normal” Monetary Policy
It's going to take more than a 0 percent policy interest rate and a newly invented name for QE to really address years of monetary inflation.
Price Inflation: Corona vs. QE
High CPI inflation, popular explanations and their problems, and M1 vs. M2.
