Category Archive: 6b) Austrian Economics

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Philosophy and (Un)Common Sense

2022-09-28

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2022-09-28

Interview with Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski In today’s world, dominated as it is by the ephemeral, the superficial and the inconsequential, it can be hard for a rational, dispassionate observer to make sense of what is going on – politically, socially, economically and philosophically. It is that last aspect that gets the least “oxygen” in mainstream media, in public education and in pretty much all debates and disagreements we grapple with as a...

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The U.S. Destroyed Iranian Democracy

2022-09-28

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2022-09-28

NOTE: Our upcoming online Zoom conference “End Inflation and the Fed” kicks off on next Monday, October 3, at 7 p.m. Eastern Time with Richard Ebeling. Richard teaches economics at the Citadel and is co-host of FFF’s weekly Internet show, the Libertarian Angle.

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How to Think about Economic Theory

2022-09-27

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2022-09-27

[Chapter 2 of Per Bylund's new book How to Think about the Economy: A Primer.] Like other sciences and fields of study, economics is a body of theory. Theory is a collection of explanations that allows us to understand something. Economic theory allows us to understand how an economy works.

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Seeing the Student Loan Crisis as a Form of Boom and Bust

2022-09-27

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2022-09-27

In a market economy, prices are determined by supply and demand: how much of a quantity is being offered and how much value people place on that good relative to other goods. However, with great government power comes potential for great government irresponsibility: artificially lowering prices for some either through outright money printing or by taxing some to subsidize others.

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Conversation with Sean from SGT

2022-09-26

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2022-09-26

Precious metals analyst and expert Claudio Grass returns to SGT Report to discuss the World Economic Forum and the New World Order. Click on the below link – the content is too much for YouTube and therefore we have to protect on rumble to avoid the “spin-doctors” from the “Ministry of Truth”. Enjoy and stay free Claudio Grass, Hünenberg See, Switzerland...

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The Other Immigration Question: Should People from Wealthy Countries Migrate to Poorer Ones?

2022-09-26

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2022-09-26

The immigration debate has polarized societies across the Western world. Objectors assert that the influx of migrants has corroded social relations, and defenders argue that immigrants release a dose of entrepreneurial dynamism. Debates will persist because it’s unlikely that people can be discouraged from migrating to rich countries in the West. Migrants will continuously flock to places like America and Canada, since they provide better...

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The Idea of Liberty Is Western

2022-09-25

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2022-09-25

[This article is excerpted from chapter 21 of Money, Method, and the Market Process, a collection of essays selected and edited by Margit von Mises and with an introduction by Richard M. Ebeling.]

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The Fed Is Finally Seeing the Magnitude of the Mess It Created

2022-09-24

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2022-09-24

When asked about price inflation in his Sunday interview with 60 Minutes, President Biden claimed that inflation "was up just an inch...hardly at all." Biden continued the dishonest tactic of focuses on month-to-month price inflation growth as a means of obscuring the 40-year highs in year-over-year inflation.

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What Economics Is

2022-09-23

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2022-09-23

Economics is an exciting field. The economics of old sought to uncover how the world works. It showed, or even proved, that there is a natural order to it. There is structure to the apparent chaos. The economy has something of a life of its own: it has a nature.

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Does Capitalism Itself Create Economic Instability or Is Central Banking the Culprit?

2022-09-22

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2022-09-22

Instability in financial markets has brought back the ideas of post-Keynesian school of economics (PK) economist Hyman Minsky. Minsky held that the capitalist economy inherently is unstable, culminating in severe economic crisis, accumulation of debt being the key mechanism pushing the economy toward a crisis.

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Central Bankers Are Gaslighting Us about the “Strong Dollar”

2022-09-22

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2022-09-22

On February 8, the Japanese yen fell to a 24-year low against the dollar, dropping to 143 yen per dollar. Not much has changed since then with the yen hovering between 142 and 144 per dollar. In September of 2021, one only needed 109 yen to buy a dollar. 

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Why the Fed Usually Ignores its Mandate for “Stable Prices”

2022-09-21

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2022-09-21

In recent years, Congress has attempted to add various new mandates to the Federal Reserve's mission. In 2020, Democrats introduced the "Federal Reserve Racial and Economic Equity Act."  Then, in 2021, pundits and politicians were telling us that it's the Fed's job to "combat climate change."

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Review: Free Market: The History of an Idea

2022-09-21

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2022-09-21

Jacob Soll is a distinguished historian, and Free Market contains much of value, but the book cannot be considered a success, and indeed as it reaches the twentieth century, it becomes a disaster. Even in the parts of the book worth reading, Soll is in the iron grip of a central thesis, one that his historical approach by its nature makes impossible to prove.

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Right-Wing Hypocrisy on DeSantis’s Clownish Thuggery

2022-09-20

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2022-09-20

Right-wingers are making a big deal out of the decision by people in Martha’s Vineyard not to take into their homes the immigrants that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis shipped to them a few days ago. The right-wingers are saying that feeding the immigrants and caring for them was not sufficient.

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Socialism Is Not Groupthink, but Statethink: A Brief Comment on Jordan Peterson

2022-09-20

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2022-09-20

According to Jordan Peterson, left-wing totalitarians are characterized by an ideology in which group identity is paramount. I will demonstrate that this is a misconception. Historically, socialists have fought against feudalism and capitalism in the name of emancipating the individual from any kind of group or class identity.

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Wages, Unemployment, and Inflation

2022-09-19

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2022-09-19

Our economic system—the market economy or cap­italism—is a system of consumers' supremacy. The customer is sovereign; he is, says a popular slogan, "always right." Businessmen are under the neces­sity of turning out what the consumers ask for and they must sell their wares at prices which the con­sumers can afford and are prepared to pay.

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The Truth about American Inequality

2022-09-19

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2022-09-19

Economist and Mises Institute Associated Scholar Robert Ekelund recently teamed up with former US Senator Phil Gramm and John Early to write The Myth of American Inequality: How Gernment Biases Policy Debate.  The book was released this month by Rowman and Littlefield Publishers. In it, the authors explore some of the many ways that the debate over inequality in the United States is based on bad research, bad data, and a variety of other...

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Molinari Explains the Difference between Monarchy and Popular Government

2022-09-18

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2022-09-18

With the impending burial of the United Kingdom’s Queen Elizabeth II, republicans from London to Sydney have ramped up their efforts to end the British monarchy. The resulting war of words between monarchists and their opponents has highlighted the sheer diversity of opinions over the desirability of monarchy.

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Government Intervention into International Currency Exchange Rates: Japan as a Case Study

2022-09-18

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2022-09-18

The recent hefty depreciation of the yen to a twenty-four-year low against the dollar has raised eyebrows due to the yen’s traditional safe haven role in times of turmoil, such as the war in Ukraine. The yen’s decline had already started when major central banks signaled a tightening of monetary policy to fight inflation while the Bank of Japan (BoJ) doubled down on its loose monetary policy and zero target for ten-year bond yields.

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Powell’s Pivot to “Pain” but No Gain: Triggering the Coming Recession

2022-09-17

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2022-09-17

Jay “The Inflation We Caused Is Transitory” Powell finally did it. On Friday, the Fed chair finally mustered the courage to say that he is going to do the job he has been hired to do: the Fed will not “pivot” to cut interest rates until inflation slows meaningfully and persistently—even if the stock, bond, and housing bear markets become much worse and the economy goes into recession.

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