Why Americans Don’t Have Any Savings
In response to a likely worldwide recession, governments have turned on full blast the fiscal and monetary spigots. A $2 trillion spending plan has just been approved in the USA, …
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Government Victims and Entreprenurial Failure: Two Types of Conoranvirus Bankruptcies
In our present dire economic situation, lots of businesses are expected to go bankrupt. The question nobody seems to ask is, why do they fail? There are two issues at …
Yousif Almoayyed: Good Business Ethics Are Simply Good Business
Key Takeaways And Actionable Insights Austrians maintain an active focus on business ethics. Why? It’s simple self-interest. As entrepreneurs, we want to succeed; individuals can’t do it alone, we need …
The Fed’s Balance Sheet Skyrockets as It Doubles Down on Inflating Asset Prices
Back in October, the Fed already knew there was a liquidity problem. This is why in September, the Fed began a new round of quantitative easing to essentially bail out …
Why This Bubble Economy Keeps Going and Going
Current global bailouts may put off global busts for quite some time. But they will weaken output and employment gains. People’s standard of living will stagnate or even fall, even …
Builders in Denial
The year 2006 seems like a lifetime ago. The housing boom seemed to be going full throttle, but danger lurked. I wrote on LewRockwell.com in March of that year, concerning …
What Is Entrepreneurship?
[From Chapter 8 of Rothbard’s Man, Economy, and State.] We shall concentrate on the capitalist-entrepreneurs, economically the more important type of entrepreneur. These are the men who invest in “capital” …
Even If the Fed Keeps Pumping Money, We May Still See Deflation
So far in March, the data indicates that the yearly growth rate of our measure for US money supply (as measured by the AMS metric) stood at 10.5 percent against 6.6 …
Human Action Part Four with Dr. Mark Thornton
Professor Mark Thornton and Jeff Deist finish Part Four of Human Action with a look at Chapters 21–24 of the book—a powerful exposition of how social cooperation and market exchange …
Keynes Called Himself a Socialist. He Was Right.
Introduction In 1997 Ralph Raico published an article titled “Keynes and the Reds.” Raico’s article highlighted John Maynard Keynes’s review of a 1936 book by the British socialists Sidney and Beatrice …