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“At a defining moment for the European Union, its largest country, Germany, appeared divided and its leader absent, raising significant concerns about what kind of leadership Chancellor Angela Merkel can offer as the region tries to stabilize financial …
READ MOREDr. Roger Garrison, Professor of Economics at Auburn University, has constructed a variety of useful slideshow presentations to aid students in understanding the workings of the market system. For those unfamiliar with the Austrian Business Cycle Theor …
READ MORE“Now, fear is back in play,” said William H. Gross, managing director of Pimco, as the European crisis is sending shock waves into financial markets around the world. There is fear that the sovereign debt crisis could freeze up the euro-zone interbank …
READ MORESome interesting news items this week on the European crisis: A “wild week” (Financial Times) “Fears of eurozone sovereign risk contagion to banks, tighter monetary policy in China and surprise intraday selling by electronic trading systems united to d …
READ MORE“Those who wish to preserve freedom should recognize, however, that inflation is probably the most important single factor in that vicious circle wherein one kind of government action makes more and more government control necessary. For this reason, a …
READ MOREWorld-wide stock markets plunged yesterday as the ongoing sovereign debt crisis in Europe is worsening. The Dow fell 1000 points–its worst ever intraday drop–before rebounding, but still ended down more than 3 percent (as did the S&P 500 and Nasd …
READ MOREOn Wednesday, I posted a link to a Freedom Daily article by Jim Powell. It was a very interesting article. I highly recommend it for those who are not aware of the history of Argentina and its fall from prosperity. I also highly recommend it to those w …
READ MORE“Legislation restoring dollar-gold convertibility should be accompanied by passage of a constitutional amendment guaranteeing the American people a right to conduct their economic affairs in gold, regardless of the future status of gold as the official …
READ MORE“The present financial crisis has set in bold relief the Jekyll and Hyde nature of contemporary central banks. It has made apparent both our utter dependence on such banks as instruments for assuring the continuous flow of credit in the aftermath of a …
READ MORE“The world economy is continually changing, but one constant is dissatisfaction with the euro. Toward the beginning of the decade, the main complaint was that the euro was too weak for booming economies like Ireland. Now the complaint is that it is too …
READ MORE“Nowadays it is usual in economics to talk about the Austrian theory of the trade cycle. This description is extremely flattering for us Austrian economists, and we greatly appreciate the honor thereby given us. Like all other scientific contributions, …
READ MOREOn April 9, 2010, the Atlas Economic Research Foundation held a Teach Freedom Initiative conference at the Sheraton Society Hill Hotel in Philadelphia. The theme of the conference is “The Attack on Sound Money and Entrepreneurship: Threatening Liberty …
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