Money and Banking

The traditional interpretation of the effects of Andrew Jackson's opposition to the central bank suffers from faulty economy theory.

All the sophisticated quantitative methods by themselves can't help us understand the cause-and-effect of what's behind the boom-and-bust cycle.    

What the Fed was saying in 2007 suggests the central bank was practicing either deception, incompetence, or a combination of both.

China’s stealth devaluation is not making the country more competitive, it is making household and corporate debt riskier as the purchasing power of the yuan is diminished.

What is the direct-use value of bitcoin? And does it have any?

In its blind search for the "correct" interest-rate policy, the Fed can't succeed in extending the boom indefinitely.

A strong GDP growth rate, in most cases, is likely to be associated with the intensive squandering of the pool of real wealth.

Expansions in credit and investment are only a problem when they result from inflationary monetary policy, and not from real saving.

Rothbard: "if proponents of the higher minimum wage were simply wrongheaded people of good will, they would not stop at $3 or $4 an hour, but indeed would pursue their dimwit logic into the stratosphere."

When I left Soviet Russia in 1991, I thought I would never see a command-and-control economy again. I was wrong. Over the past decade the global economy has started to resemble one.