Transitory Inflation and Useless Ingredients
byTo listen to the audio version of this article click here Can you remember back to when you were two or three years old? Toddlers…
Monetary Policy Is in Turmoil
byMonetary policy is in turmoil. Ever since the financial crisis erupted eight years ago,* major central banks have fundamentally reformed the way they create and…
Where is the US dollar heading against the Euro?
byBy Dr Frank Shostak The price of the Euro in terms of the US$ closed at 1.135 in November against 1.156 in October and…
Central Bank Activism: Good Intentions, Bad Policy
byBy Kevin Dowd Talk to 39th Annual Cato Institute Annual Monetary Conference “Populism and the Future of the Fed” 18 November 2021 “Good afternoon, everyone….
Friedrich von Hayek’s Nobel Prize Banquet speech
byFriedrich August von Hayek’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1974 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Now that the Nobel…
OPEC Can’t Make High Oil Prices Go Away
byHigh oil prices are a symptom of economic and monetary imbalances, not just a consequence of Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) decisions. Throughout…
The myth that money pumping can help economic growth
byBy Dr Frank Shostak By popular thinking, the role of the central bank is to navigate the economy along the so-called path of economic…
themarket.ch – Interview with Jim Grant
byJim Grant, editor of Grant’s Interest Rate Observer, warns of the rampant speculation in the stock market. He worries that the central banks are…
Will the Next “Skyscraper Curse” Be Found in the Digital World?
byThe vast majority of Mises Wire readers are already familiar with the Austrian business cycle theory. For those who are not, it is an Austrian perspective…
The Divisia monetary indicator and the money supply definition
byBy Dr Frank Shostak By most commentators, since the early 1980s, correlations between various definitions of money and national income have broken down. The…