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How Easy Money Inflated Corporate Profits

by Brendan Brown via Mises Institute In the incessant media discussion about whether inflation is transitory there is a big elephant in the room about which all are silent. Perhaps strangely some do not see it. Others for whatever reason pretend it is not there. The elephant is the fantastic surge in US corporate profits that […]

“Crypto-Mania” and the Unsound Money Regime

by Brendan Brown via Mises.org Previous sustained surges in consumer prices – otherwise described as big levies of inflation taxation – have brought in their wake episodes of monetary normalization. These have usually featured a “return to gold” or at least to monetary rules associated with the gold standard. The 2021-2 surge will likely prove […]