Financial Markets

Alan Greenspan is in the news a lot currently because of the release of his new book. I haven’t read the book.

Given the wide variety of assets it can accept (in particular, non-AAA MBS), the Fed also has the potential to get itself into plenty of trouble, the sort of trouble that might require it to seek an even larger expansion of its powers.

The media is reporting that George Bush has ruled out a government bailout of mortgage lenders, but instead, the Bush package is sure to

With the collapse in the price of sub-prime mortgage backed securities and credit derivatives, the credit boom has moved into the crisis phase.

It is hard to avoid the conclusion that the dollar could be ready for another beating.

Unfortunately, by buying up MBS and propping up the market the Fed will only cause more harm than it already has.

I was speaking to a banker this past weekend who put the blame on the subprime problem squarely on the campaign against “

The turmoil in financial markets is eliciting the usual response from the central bankers, all up there in their Hueys, ‘Die Walkuere’

The turmoil in the credit markets now emanating from the collapse of the housing bubble can be understood in the light of the theory of the busines

Recorded at Mises University 2007.