Should War Be Made “Humane”?
Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented Warby Samuel MoynFarrar, Straus and Giroux, 400 pp. Samuel Moyn is a distinguished intellectual historian who teaches both history and law at …
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Review: Monetary Policy after the Great Recession: The Role of Interest Rates
Monetary Policy after the Great Recession: The Role of Interest RatesArkadiusz SieronNew York: Routledge, 2020, xviii + 230 pp. Nikolay Gertchev ([email protected]) holds a PhD in economics from the University …
Before a Bust, There Is Always a Boom (and Malinvestment)
For most commentators lending is associated with money. However, is this the case? When a saver lends money, what he/she in fact lends to a borrower is final consumer goods …
Europe Faces a Fragile Economy as the Merkel Era Ends
As Angela Merkel prepares her exit from the chancellery in Berlin, a false alarm is ringing in Europe about an imminent danger of “stagflation.” This phenomenon, like dragons, belongs to …
The Prospects for Soft Secession in America
1930, Columbia professor Karl Llewellyn published The Bramble Bush, his famous tract on how to think about and study law. Llewellyn urged readers to consider both law and custom when seeking …
Why Bureaucrats Are Sitting on So Much Money-Losing Real Estate
The very size and scope of the United States federal government is likely something that Ludwig von Mises could not have imagined, despite writing the book which foretold the results …
You’ll Be Shocked the Learn There’s Corruption at the Fed
Some fed officials simply shrugged off what was an obvious conflict of interest when they traded stocks and real estate holdings while making policy. The rules don’t apply to central …
Can Economic Data Explain the Timing and Causes of Recessions?
Without establishing the underlying causes of boom-bust cycles, employing policies in response to changes in economic indicators to counter economic cycles is likely to destabilize the economy. Original Article: “Can …
Misadventures in Fibrillation
Our guests are Thomas Wingert, a patient, Bogdan Enache, an electrophysiologist at Centre Hospitalier Princesse Grace in Monaco, and Saurabh Jha, an Associate Professor of Radiology at the Perelman School …
The Fed Is Helping Facilitate Trailer Park Evictions
The Federal Reserve is helping corporate real estate investors evict poor people from mobile home parks. NPR highlighted the growing number of mobile home part evictions. According to the report, real …