Financial Markets

Review of Competition versus Monopoly: Combines Policy in Perspective by Donald Armstrong

The BIS has just released a research report questioning whether negative interest rates are effective in achieving policymakers' goals of staving off a (phantom) deflation without adversely impacting the financial sector and the overall economy.

Dodd-Frank has all but ended the days of the friendly, small-town neighborhood bank.

Congressman Jeb Hensarling mentions Hayek's Fatal Conceit regarding the Fed bureaucracy's ability to manage money and interest rates. 

Peyton Manning Just Save the Super Bowl Indicator?

A guest panel featuring Daniel McAdams, Larry Beane, Sandra Klein, Andrew Widener, and Bill Haynes.

Jeff Deist and Mark Thornton discuss how and why central bankers don't understand deflation.

The Big Short is a pretty good movie, but there are a few things it leaves out.

It was a big week for Bernie Sanders's brand of socialism, and millions of Americans already agree with him. Thanks to unquestioning acceptance of wild claims about the success of socialism in Europe, many Americans are now wishing for some European-style socialism themselves.

Progressives would have us believe that they protect ordinary people from greedy corporations. But in truth, policies like Obamacare and Cap and Trade are immense crony capitalist deals that cartelize markets and greatly favor politically connected corporations.