Booms and Busts

China's authoritarian gerontocracy has built a Doom Loop with Chinese characteristics, with over half the economy now crashing.

Study of business cycles must be based upon a satisfactory cycle theory. Gazing at sheaves of statistics without "pre-judgment" is futile.

We should not just be concerned about problems in the American banking system, but also about the proliferation of Eurodollars.

Dr. Jonathan Newman joins the show to talk about his doubts of a "soft landing" for the economy, and the lies being told to sell Central Bank Digital Currencies.

Jonathan Newman joins Bob to explain why the data still support the case for recession and point out the eerie similarity to the calm before the storm in 2008.

How can a bank “create money out of thin air”? We must enter the magical kingdom of “fractional-reserve banking,” where deposits are turned into loans, loans are turned into money, and so on, to find out.

Many observers have dismissed the significance of the yield curve inversion in 2022.

The Mises Institute's Executive Editor Ryan McMaken joins Bob to discuss his latest article, in which Ryan spells out the state of the M2 money supply and possible implications for consumer prices and an impending recession.

Rental prices are falling as the markets adjust to new realities. The Austrian business cycle theory explains why this is happening.

The Keynesian prescription for an economic downturn is for government to increase spending to improve so-called aggregate demand. In reality, this is a recipe for worsening the recession.