10. Banking and the Business Cycle
Loan banking is non-inflationary. Interest rates on loans are merely reflective of price spreads. All speculation, on the free-market, is self-correcting and speeds adjustment, rather than cause economic trouble.
Loan banking is non-inflationary. Interest rates on loans are merely reflective of price spreads. All speculation, on the free-market, is self-correcting and speeds adjustment, rather than cause economic trouble.
Barter – direct exchange- is inefficient because of the lack of a double coincidence of wants. Some third medium was sought to solve this. It is called money. Exchanges are not equal, they are win-win, with each party gaining more than he is giving or the exchange would not be made.
Mike Shedlock gives a rather Austrian-flavored explanat
Does gasoline at 10 cents a gallon and falling sound impossible in today’s world?
“Dad Dean” considers university tenure systems at insidehighered.com.
A book-length manuscript based on notes taken by Bettina B. Greaves during the Mises Seminar in New York in the 1960s.