Capital and Interest Theory
Venezuela Shows There’s No Shortcut to Economic Growth
Economic growth is about transforming capital in useful ways. It is not about just making more stuff.
How Capitalism Improves the Welfare of All
Antiliberal policy is a policy of capital consumption. It recommends that the present be more abundantly provided for at the expense of the future.
Gross Calls for Helicopter Money
Legendary investor Bill Gross calls on the Fed to bring on Milton Friedman's "helicopter money."
The Austrian Business Cycle Theory: A Defense of Its General Validity
The paper aims to defend the general validity of the ABCT against the assumption that the theory does not hold if entrepreneurs are able to anticipate correctly the inflationary effects of a fiduciary credit expansion.
Review of Finance Behind the Veil of Money: An Essay on the Economics of Capital, Interest, and the Financial Market by Eduard Braun
The reader should trudge his way through this book for two reasons. First is the explanation for why the purchasing power of money must be defined in terms of consumers’ goods prices, not capital goods. Second, and more importantly, Braun resurrects the subsistence fund doctrine, an integral aspect of business cycle theory and completely neglected by modern writers.
We Need to Talk about Frank (Fetter)
Fetter's neglected work is the source of some of the greatest insights in Austrian economics, and deeply influenced Mises, Rothbard, and others.
Dark Clouds over Auburn
I have lived in Auburn, Alabama, for more than three decades and have never seen a Super Sized Construction Crane. Last week, two were erected in the middle of town.
Malinvestments and Interest Rates
Mark Thornton is interviewed on the RT program, "Boom Bust". He discusses malinvestments stimulated by artificially lowered interest rates.
The Week in Review: December 12, 2015
The world waits to see if next week is finally the week that the Fed announces its rate hike. Can the economy survive whatever small bump the Fed deals out? Perhaps, but that won’t change the inherent instability of our current monetary regime.