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There is no means of avoiding a final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as a result of a voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved.
Ludwig von Mises
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What has the MPC got to hide?
News to light the fires of the paranoid and conspiracy theorists out there: The Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), the group which decides on interest rates each month, keeps no minutes of their meetings. We’ve argued on this … Continue reading
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Tagged Austrian school, Bank of England, central bank, economics, Federal Reserve, keynesian, mpc
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Real interest rates already are negative
Today it was announced that the Deputy Governor of the Bank of England was considering lowering the base rate further still, beyond the current 0.5% into negative terrority. Quite how this is supposed to solve our economic problems isn’t clear. … Continue reading
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Tagged Austrian school, Bank of England, central bank, interest rates, negative rates, Paul Tucker
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