Skyscrapers and Business Cycles, or How You Can Predict the Next Economic Crisis

Tags: Business Cycles, Interventionism, Booms and Busts, Financial Markets

03/26/2010 Mark Thornton

Presented to the Auburn University Economics Club; Auburn, Alabama, on 25 March 2010. Includes a Question and Answer period.

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