Archive for Banking
BMS ep. 149: George Selgin Critiques MMT then Debates Bob on Fractional Reserve Banking
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Read moreDo the Econ Textbooks Get Money & Banking Backwards?
The latest installment in my series on Understanding Money Mechanics for the Mises Institute. Once I dove into this one, the solutions seemed pretty obvious. Tell me what you folks think. An excerpt: In chapter 5 we reviewed the textbook analysis of how a central bank buys government debt in “open market operations” to add […]
Read moreResponse to Selgin on Fractional Reserve Banking and the Business Cycle, Part I
George Selgin has a 3-part series (I, II, and III) at Alt-M taking people (like me) to task for claiming that FRB per se causes the boom-bust cycle as described by Mises/Hayek. To be clear, George is putting aside the issue of whether FRB is fraud, and is just focusing on the economics. (He thinks […]
Read moreThe Myth of Fed Independence
My latest article is feisty. It sounds like I’m defending Trump and then…BAM! I go full Rothbard. Trump committed a faux pas with his public complaints about the Fed. But his actual “mistake” was in letting the American people in on a dirty secret: The central bank is by its very nature a political institution […]
Read moreFurther Thoughts on Fractional Reserve Banking and Simple Theft
Again, it looks like I’m loading the deck by saying “FRB is like a mugger,” but that’s not the motivation for this analogy… If you haven’t already read it, you should check out my previous post, where I set up a thought experiment to work through the mechanics of FRB, and how it might (or […]
Read moreA Thought Experiment on Fractional Reserve Banking
Enrico in the comments of my FRB lecture writes: “if someone lends 100$ to a bank for a fixed time period, and then the bank makes a loan of 90$, no boom&bust cycle will happen. The reason is that the 90$ loan granted by the bank is “backed” by (at least) 90$ real savings from […]
Read moreRothbardians vs. “Free Bankers”
This was a new talk I gave at Mises U this year. Among other novelties, it contains an exchange between Dr. Evil and his subordinate, #2.
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