The following is an exclusive interview with Mike Gleason, Director of Money Metals Exchange and originally appeared on the Money Metals Exchange page. To listen to the interview, click here. Mike Gleason, Director, Money Metals Exchange: Today we have a tremendous treat in store for our listeners as we welcome in none other than Steve Forbes. I had the honor […]Read More
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As Steve Horwitz has shown, the insights of Austrian macroeconomics and monetary disequilibrium theory can be combined to yield a powerful paradigm for understanding how monetary policy affects the economy. Crucial to this synthesis is the neutrality of money. Remember that money is neutral when it facilitates exchange, but does not distort the terms of exchange. […]Read More
In addition to turmoil in common stock markets around the world, the early weeks of the new year have been characterized by changes in—and much hand wringing about—exchange rates between currencies. Prospects for changes in currency exchange rates were also much in the financial news a year ago, with considerable confusion about what was happening […]Read More
Before we delve into the economic prospects for 2016, let’s take a look at the economies in the Americas, Asia, Europe and the Middle East/Africa to see how they fared in the 2014-15 period. A clear metric for doing this is the misery index. For any country, a misery index score is simply the sum […]Read More
Many people define sound money as being when a currency’s purchasing power is not declining, but stable. This isn’t quite right, so let’s drill down. Consider two relentless processes occurring in the economy. They are both happening at all times, but it will be easier to look at them separately. One is good, and one […]Read More
Many economists who have broadly free market views on money are sympathetic to the Austrian theory of the business cycle (ABCT). As developed in the early part of the 20th century by Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich Hayek, and further refined in recent years by Steven Horwitz and Roger Garrison, ABCT links the business cycle to […]Read More