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Woods Exposes the Federal Reserve System

April 26, 2024

Woods Exposes the Federal Reserve System The first thing to know about Dr. Thomas E. Woods, Jr.’s’ book Our Enemy, the Fed is he’s giving it away. Click the link, get your copy and read the whole book. Clearly, such intellectual charity is not only rare but in the educational spirit of Mises.org. The subject matter is […]

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The Curious Case of Missing Defaults

November 1, 2017

THE CURIOUS CASE OF THE MISSING DEFAULTS CAMBRIDGE – Booms and busts in international capital flows and commodity prices, as well as the vagaries of international interest rates, have long been associated with economic crises, especially – but not exclusively – in emerging markets. The “type” of crisis varies by time and place. Sometimes the […]

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Why We Need a Recession

January 20, 2016

Why We Need a Recession  According to the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), a recession is defined as a “significant decline in economic activity spread across the economy, lasting more than a few months.” Often, this is understood as two consecutive quarters of negative economic growth as measured by a country’s GDP. Public opinion is generally […]

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Why Economics Matters

September 4, 2015

Why Economics Matters This article is a selection from a June 19 presentation at a lunchtime meeting of the Grassroot Institute in Honolulu at the Pacific Club. The talk was part of the Mises Institute’s Private Seminar series for lay audiences. To schedule your own Private Seminar with a Mises Institute speaker, please contact Kristy Holmes at the Mises Institute. First let me say that what we today […]

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Debunking Keynesian “History”: The Gold Standard Had Nothing To Do With Panics And Busts | David Stockman’s Contra Corner

December 12, 2014

Debunking Keynesian “History”: The Gold Standard Had Nothing To Do With Panics And Busts | David Stockman’s Contra Corner. One of the main reasons that detractors of the gold standard contend it is a “barbarous relic” (in John Maynard Keynes’s phrase) is that it was implicated in so many financial panics and economic busts back […]

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