Keynes, the Man by Murray N. Rothbard

by Murray N. Rothbard published at Lew Rockwell

Originally published in Dissent on Keynes: A Critical Appraisal of Keynesian Economics, edited by Mark Skousen. New York: Praeger (1992). Pp. 171–198.

John Maynard Keynes, the man – his character, his writings, and his actions throughout life – was composed of three guiding and interacting elements. The [...]

Cash for Clunkers Cluelessness

I received this in an email and found some food for thought. I think others may too.

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The numbers I checked out are okay except I can’t verify the $1 Billion to run the program. I suspect that is way off base. There was an article that said [...]

Gary North: Which Flation will Get Us?

WHICH FLATION WILL GET US? from garynorth.com

Date 9/8/2009

Issue 109

One of them will. That’s if things work out really well. Two or three will if things go according to the Austrian theory of the business cycle.

Americans have been living in the eye of the monetary hurricane. [...]

There Will Be (Hyper)Inflation

There Will Be (Hyper)Inflation by Thorsten Polleit.

Increasing “Excess Reserves”

The demise of fiat-money regimes around the world has become unmistakable. They can only be kept alive by central banks creating ever-greater amounts of base money and governments underwriting commercial banks’ liabilities.

The US Federal Reserve, for instance, increased the stock of the monetary base [...]

Iceland expected to turn left in weekend election

Nobody wants to mention tax rises just ahead of the elections,” said Thorolfur Matthiasson, an economics professor at the University of Iceland. “But if the budget deficit is 10 percent of GDP and the official debt is approximately what the nation can produce in one year, then the politicians will have to raise tax and [...]

The Goal Is Freedom: Theory and Crisis

This webpage is copied in full from fee.org.  It is a fine expression which applies to the economic collapse of today.

http://www.fee.org/in_brief/default.asp?id=2396&year=2008&month=10

October 10, 2008

by Sheldon Richman

Sheldon Richman is the editor of The Freeman and “In brief,” and a contributor to The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics. TGIF appears Fridays. Comments welcome.