Central Banks

Recorded at the Mises Circle in Fort Myers, Florida, 4 November 2023. Includes audience question and answer period.

Jesús Huerta de Soto reviews Murray Rothbard's A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II.

Sponsored by Brian and Shanna Tvenstrup.

Sponsored by Scott and Cathy Ullery.

Sponsored by Bob Tancula.

Sponsored by Mark Strategos.

Sponsored by Dan Johnson and Randee Laskewitz.

Sponsored by Wilfried and Barbara Puscher.

While the prospect of Javier Milei being elected president of Argentina is attractive, his plan to "dollarize" the Argentine economy will fall well short of hopes and expectations.

While central banks use administered interest rates in hopes of emulating the natural rate, these efforts are always going to fail. Without free markets, there is no natural rate.