According to popular thinking, the government’s definition of money is of a flexible nature. Sometimes it could be M1, and at other times it could be M2 or some other M money supply. M1 includes currency and demand deposits. M2 ...
The Federal Reserve is no more “private” than the Environmental Protection Agency, and through its special government status, the Fed inflicts many economic crimes on regular people. Original Article: “The Fed Is a Purely Political Institution, and It’s Definitely Not a ...
It was an immensely volatile and eventful week for the Markets as they headed towards the last weekly close before the Union Budget. The last three sessions, more particularly, the last two sessions remained marred by the severely bearish reactions ...
We typically have a song or two in my head. After all, watching ticks is musical and has a lot of different beats. And typically, those songs turn into parodies. For this past week, the first song was sealed in ...
How much weight should we put on the fact that the S&P 500 index powered above its 200-day moving average this week? If history is any indication, then this is actually a fairly momentous occasion. Unless it’s a repeat of March ...
In this week’s edition of Moxie Indicator Minutes, TG notes that there is a lot of negativity out there and concern about the effects the economy will have on the market. Yet GDP has come in strong, and many names ...
The Moral Foundations of Civil Societyby William RöpkeTransaction Publishers, (1948) 1996; xxxvii + 235 pp. In an earlier column, I discussed Wendell Berry’s stress on land and locality, and. among Austrian school economists, Wilhelm Röpke is most sympathetic to these ...
The recent inflationary episodes in the USA have led to the emergence of several different explanations, ranging from overexpansion of the money supply to supply-side constraints, not to mention the role of rising markups along with price gouging and greed ...
The move from feudalism to the relatively free capitalist societies occurred slowly, beginning with the emergence of the city-states in Italy in Medieval Europe. Original Article: “The Italian City-Republics Were the Manhattan of the Twelfth Century” This Audio Mises Wire is ...
Professor Per Bylund of Oklahoma State University, author of How to Think About the Economy joins Jeff and Bob to dissect how economics went so badly wrong. A discipline rooted in theory, axioms, and deduction has devolved into statistics, models, ...