Scott is joined by Mark Thornton, Senior Fellow at the Mises Institute, to discuss an article he wrote recently on the current housing bubble. They begin by discussing the damage that unbacked government-managed paper money does to the United States and the world. They relate that back to our current economic situation where we are feeling the effects of the enormous monetary expansion the Fed unleashed in 2020. Next, they turn to housing where Thornton, who was an early observer of the housing bubble that crashed in 2007, explains how that bubble has evolved into what we have today. Lastly, they discuss the virtues of free trade and the problems with government-run “free trade blocs.”
Discussed on the show:
- “The Fed’s Latest Housing Bubble” (Mises.org)
- “Housing: Too Good to Be True” (Mises.org)
- “Biden’s Baby Formula Airlift Stunt Should Never Have Been Necessary” (Reason)
- Secrets of the Temple: How the Federal Reserve Runs the Country by William Greider
- mises.org/events
Mark Thornton is a senior fellow at the Mises Institute. His most recent book is The Skyscraper Curse: And How Austrian Economists Predicted Every Major Economic Crisis of the Last Century. Follow him on Twitter @DrMarkThornton
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Scott Horton is director of the Libertarian Institute, editorial director of Antiwar.com, host of Antiwar Radio on Pacifica, 90.7 FM KPFK in Los Angeles, California and podcasts the Scott Horton Show from this website. He’s the author of the 2017 book, Fool’s Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan. Visit https://scotthorton.org