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4 Ways Employers Respond to Minimum Wage Laws (Besides Laying Off Workers)
Most of you will be familiar with a supply and demand graph. This shows a demand curve, which graphs the relationship between the price…
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Can expectations undo the validity of the Mises’s business cycle theory?
According to Ludwig von Mises’s Austrian Business Cycle Theory (ABCT), the artificial lowering of interest rates by the central bank leads to a…
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Low yield, no yield, negative yield – Buy now but don’t forget to sell
The amount of negative yielding fixed securities has hit a new record The Federal Reserve and the ECB are expected to resume easing…
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“Mind-alteringly cheap”
“The problem is not so much to see what nobody has yet seen, as to think what nobody has yet thought concerning that…
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The illusion of the Keynesian multiplier
For most economists and financial commentators the heart of economic growth is the increase in the demand for goods and services. It is…
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For those who don’t understand inflation
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Interest Rates, Global Value Chains and Bank Reserve Requirements
Interest Rates, Global Value Chains and Bank Reserve Requirements Global Value Chains have suffered since 2009 Despite low interest rates, financial costs remain…
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Who determines interest rates?
For most experts the central bank determines short- term interest rates by setting the target to the benchmark policy rate such as the…
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Debt, Deficits and the Cost of Free Lunches
It seems that every generation or two, fundamental economic ideas are questioned and challenged. The reasonable and important idea that governments should balance their…
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The Financial War Escalates
Behind the scenes, the financial war between America and China is escalating dangerously into a war to secure global financial resources. At a time…
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Huawei and the Damaging U.S.-China Trade War
by Junhua Zhang On June 15, 2019 President Xi Jinping celebrates his 66th birthday. Even if the date remains a state secret, many China…
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Mises on 100-Percent Reserve Banking
By Edward W. Fuller Economists debate whether Ludwig von Mises advocated free banking or 100 percent reserve banking. This debate is significant. Mises states, “the…
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Making sense of correlations in economics
Often we observe that two pieces of data, which are not supposed to have any relationship, appear to have very high visual correlation….
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Statistics and the facts of economic reality
The government’s releases of various economic indicators such as GDP, CPI and unemployment receive wide coverage in the media. In a measured and…
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4 Ways Employers Respond to Minimum Wage Laws (Besides Laying Off Workers)
Most of you will be familiar with a supply and demand graph. This shows a demand curve, which graphs the relationship between the price…
Can expectations undo the validity of the Mises’s business cycle theory?
According to Ludwig von Mises’s Austrian Business Cycle Theory (ABCT), the artificial lowering of interest rates by the central bank leads to a…
Low yield, no yield, negative yield – Buy now but don’t forget to sell
The amount of negative yielding fixed securities has hit a new record The Federal Reserve and the ECB are expected to resume easing…
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Mises on 100-Percent Reserve Banking
By Edward W. Fuller Economists debate whether Ludwig von Mises advocated free banking or 100 percent reserve banking. This debate is significant. Mises states, “the…
The World Is Growing Tired of Government-Controlled Fiat Currencies
Source: https://mises.org/wire/world-growing-tired-government-controlled-fiat-currencies Listen to the Audio Mises Wire version of this article. Here in the U.S. the financial markets are focusing on Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s herky-jerky monetary…
Chapter 9: Reform
Anyone reading this probably already feels that reform would be a good idea. On paper, reform would be a simple matter: merely cancelling unjust…
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