[ Complicit: How Greed and Collusion Made the Credit Crisis Unstoppable • By Mark Gilbert • Bloomberg Press, 2010 • 192 pages] “Sanity remained in short supply.” – Mark Gilbert, Complicit Complicit , by Mark Gilbert, the London bureau chief for Bloomberg financial news, is unusual — a book concerning our recently demised speculative boom that you
At the Mises Academy we are just wrapping up the inaugural class , on the Austrian theory of the business cycle. During the class, one issue that came up repeatedly was whether the Mises/Hayek story of the trade cycle could occur on a completely free market, using gold as money and a banking system that operated on 100 percent reserves. As any
World Bank president Robert Zoellick has stirred up a hornet’s nest with his recent call for a return to a gold anchor in the global financial system. The usual suspects immediately denounced him, with Keynesian Brad DeLong anointing Zoellick the “ Stupidest Man Alive .” In the present article I’ll explain the resurging interest in the yellow
In his interview with the CNBC on November 9, 2010, a highly regarded Wall Street economist, Nouriel Roubini, the cofounder and chairman of Roubini Global Economics, said that a gold standard is unlikely to stabilize the financial system. On the contrary, holds Roubini, such a standard can only make things much worse. For instance, argues Roubini,
[Excerpted from chapter 4 of The Driver (1922). An MP3 audio version of this article, excerpted from the audiobook by Jeff Riggenbach, is available as a free download .] You may define a mass delusion; you cannot explain it really. It is a malady of the imagination, incurable by reason, that apparently must run its course. If it does not lead
[An MP3 audio file of this article, narrated by Keith Hocker, is available for download .] In his extraordinary book Democracy: The God that Failed , Hans-Hermann Hoppe points out that the process of civilization is stopped when government continually violates property rights. The natural process of civilization comes through delaying
El presidente del Banco Mundial Robert Zoellick ha agitado un avispero con su reciente llamada a una vuelta a un anclaje al oro en el sistema financiero global. Los sospechosos habituales le han denunciado inmediatamente, con el keynesiano Brad DeLong ungiendo a Zoellick como “ el hombre vivo más estúpido ”. En el presente artículo explicaré el
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