Episode 17: What Caused the Financial Crisis?
Posted in Audio, First Principles on 15 January 2010
Stats: 87 views and 1 Comment Mike Van Winkle interviews Professors Peter Boettke and Steven Horwitz, co-authors of the recent FEE monograph "The House That Uncle Sam Built," about what led to the financial meltdown and the Great Recession of 2008. Download PDF of "The House That Uncle Sam Built" by Peter Boettke and Steven Horwitz. Visit the ...
Posted in Audio, First Principles on 15 January 2010
Stats: 87 views and 1 Comment Mike Van Winkle interviews Professors Peter Boettke and Steven Horwitz, co-authors of the recent FEE monograph "The House That Uncle Sam Built," about what led to the financial meltdown and the Great Recession of 2008. Download PDF of "The House That Uncle Sam Built" by Peter Boettke and Steven Horwitz. Visit the ...
The House That Uncle Sam Built
Posted in Document on 1 December 2009
Stats: 1,888 views and 11 Comments By Steven Horwitz & Peter Boettke The Great Recession (or the Great Hangover) that began in 2008 did not have to happen. Its causes and consequences are not mysterious. Indeed, this particular and very painful episode affirms what the best nonpartisan economists have tried to tell our politicians and policy-makers for ...
Posted in Document on 1 December 2009
Stats: 1,888 views and 11 Comments By Steven Horwitz & Peter Boettke The Great Recession (or the Great Hangover) that began in 2008 did not have to happen. Its causes and consequences are not mysterious. Indeed, this particular and very painful episode affirms what the best nonpartisan economists have tried to tell our politicians and policy-makers for ...
Economic Distress on the Rise
Posted in News on 19 November 2009
Stats: 3 views and 4 Comments The Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) updated its Distress Index (DI) today in light of recent data released by the federal government showing an increase in the Consumer Price Index, which is commonly used to measure inflation. As a result the DI was raised to 59.7, the highest point since ...
Posted in News on 19 November 2009
Stats: 3 views and 4 Comments The Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) updated its Distress Index (DI) today in light of recent data released by the federal government showing an increase in the Consumer Price Index, which is commonly used to measure inflation. As a result the DI was raised to 59.7, the highest point since ...
Inflation as Income Distribution
Posted in The Goal Is Freedom on 9 January 2009
Stats: 270 views and 17 Comments Sheldon Richman is the editor of The Freeman and "In brief," and author of "Fascism" in The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics. The Federal Reserve has been pumping hundreds of billions of newly created dollars into "the economy." Much of that money has been sent to Wall Street to ...
Posted in The Goal Is Freedom on 9 January 2009
Stats: 270 views and 17 Comments Sheldon Richman is the editor of The Freeman and "In brief," and author of "Fascism" in The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics. The Federal Reserve has been pumping hundreds of billions of newly created dollars into "the economy." Much of that money has been sent to Wall Street to ...
