Money and Banks
Without the State, Who Would Invent Tang?
During the 2012 presidential campaign, President Obama made his now famous claim that “you didn’t build that” in reference to the infrastructure that businesses use to provide goods and services to customers.
Russian Alchemy: Turning Oil into Gold
It would seem that Vladimir Putin has learned the art of alchemy as he has turned some Russian oil into Russian gold.
Two Sides of the Same Debased Coin
Crony capitalism and Keynesianism are just two sides of the same debased coin.
The Fed and the Dirty Dozen
Dallas Federal Reserve President Richard Fisher in a recent speech ca
Answering the Same Old Arguments Against Sound Money
Presented at the Mises Circle in Manhattan, hosted by the Ludwig von Mises Institute and sponsored by the Story Garschina Charitable Fund, and Anon
The Financial Crisis and the Free Market Cure: Why Pure Capitalism Is the World Economy’s Only Hope, by John A. Allison
This book contains the oddest sentence I have ever read about the current financial crisis, or for that matter about any financial crisis.
The Eurocrisis
This lecture by Philipp Bagus was presented at the 2012 Mises University in Auburn, Alabama.
The Fiasco of Fiat Money
Today’s worldwide fiat-money regime has effects that extend beyond what most people would imagine, writes Thorsten Polleit.
Rules, Discretion, or No Central Bank
Recent discussions in the econ blog world on whether the Fed keeping interest rates too low for too long from 2003-2005 was a significant factor in