Fábio Santos

Fábio Santos

Fábio Santos is a Portuguese Economist and proprietary trader who applies Austrian principles to financial markets and everyday life.

Articles by Fábio Santos

The Pandemic Exposed the Frailty of the Financial System

TED Spread, 2007-2020

Despite the more optimistic claims of political pundits and Federal Reserve officials (Jerome Powell, specifically), things are far from being under control. Notwithstanding archetypal Austrian objections to “loose” monetary and fiscal policies on the grounds that they create production structures that ultimately deplete the pool of real savings, the operational failures of central banks cross-globally are largely nested in faulty axioms.

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