Inflation

It is no surprise that "inflation" is one of the major political issues this election cycle, but few know what inflation really is, let alone what causes it.

Luke Gromen told Dale Pinkert on the Forex Analytics F.A.C.E.

After a dramatic couple of days in the markets, economists and political figures are calling for the Fed to cut interest rates. But if we ever want to see an end to all this economic chaos, what we need are not lower rates or higher rates, but accurate interest rates. 

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on August 1, 2024.

Paul Krugman once claimed that inflation was necessary for relative income equality. The truth is that inflation, by creating winners and losers, increases and exacerbates income inequality.

Recently, the Biden administration introduced plans to limit increases in apartment rents to 5% annually.

National Conservatives are a growing movement on the political right.

Economics textbooks describe monetary policy as though it were administered by experts who know how to fix problems in the economy. In truth, there is no such thing as “monetary policy”; what we have is the Federal Reserve engaging in wealth transfers.

Reich, Elizabeth Warren, and other leftists never address the root cause of what they correctly diagnose as excessive corporate power: the Federal Reserve.

Stephanie Kelton, the most visible promoter of MMT, is being derelict in her academic duties by not replying to Per Bylund’s critique of her theories in the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics.