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Is the world finally looking to the ideas of Friedrich Hayek? It appears that the intellectual debate may be heading in a new direction. Stimulus spending has done practically nothing to reduce unemployment or spur growth; instead it has merely inflate …
READ MORE“Committee members at the Bank of England and some economists have been puzzled by persistently high inflation in Britain, causing some concerns that the country’s recovery might stagnate. Unlike in the United States and in countries that share the eur …
READ MORE“Many people claim today that the U.S. economy is in a “liquidity trap” and only government can spend us out of this mess. Commentators from Paul Krugman to Martin Wolf of the Financial Times assert we are in a “Keynesian situation”; unless government …
READ MORE“Alan Greenspan shares the story of his life first simply with an eye toward doing justice to the extraordinary amount of history he has experienced and shaped. But his other goal is to draw readers along the same learning curve he followed, so they ac …
READ MOREIn the aftermath of the financial crisis, the U.S. public debt-to-GDP ratio has been receiving special attention. A recent report from the Treasury to Congress said that the ratio of total government debt to nominal GPD will rise from 93 percent this y …
READ MORE“”There are limits to what policy can do,” especially to improve the nation’s labor market, Evans said in a television interview on CNBC. Interest rates are near zero as the Federal Reserve’s stuck with an accommodative monetary policy, and it’s alread …
READ MORE“This book tells how money has conferred power and profits to those in positions to monopolize its production, abuse their power, and ultimately destroy the value of the nation’s economy. It tells why government has not and will not — because it can n …
READ MORE“The peculiar character of the problem of a rational economic order is determined precisely by the fact that the knowledge of the circumstances of which we must make use never exists in concentrated or integrated form but solely as the dispersed bits o …
READ MORE“As an alternative to market failure explanations, we draw on theory and historical evidence to argue that fiscal considerations explain the roles governments typically play in producing and regulating money. Public monopoly production of coins and ban …
READ MORE“February 2007 February 27, 2007 | Freddie Mac Press Release The Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac) announces that it will no longer buy the most risky subprime mortgages and mortgage-related securities. April 2007 April 2, 2007 | SEC …
READ MOREOn Thursday, June 17, I attended a lecture by Dr. Benjamin Powell of Suffolk University. He spoke at the Charles G. Koch Foundation, giving one of his excellent lectures on Somalia and its Stateless society. While the lecture itself is well worth heari …
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