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Interest Rates and Risk

Interest Rates and Risk by Alex Merced (Originally Posted at LibertyIsNow.com) In plenty of articles I've written or videos I've created I've discussed how interest raes can cause mal-investment and alter the structure of the economy. The...

Published Fri, Jan 01 2011 10:45 PM by Alex Merced

Filed under: Risk, Interest Rates, Central Banks, Austrian Economics, Signals

Economic Equality versus Economic Liberty

Economic Equality versus Economic Liberty by Alex Merced One of the fundamental divides among activist economics is what is the goal when thinking of policy and the economy. Progressives focus on Economic Equality and how policy can manipulate the economy...

Published Wed, Dec 12 2010 11:36 PM by Alex Merced

Filed under: liberty, Innovation, Anarcho Capitalist, Entrepeneurship, Austrian Economics, High Wages, Fixed Income, Information, Equality

What does a Strong Dollar Policy Mean?

What does a Strong Dollar Policy Mean? by Alex Merced We always hear that the US has a "Strong Dollar Policy" yet all we see from the federal reserve is constant pump priming and quantitative easing. The purpose of the devaluation of currencies...

Published Thu, Sep 09 2010 11:33 PM by Alex Merced

Filed under: Sustainable, Austrian Economics, Consumption, Strong Dollar, Production, Growth, Currency Devaluation, Exports, Imports

Creating Infrastructure for Private Regulation

Creating Infrastructure for Private Regulation by Alex Merced Everyone on both sides of the aisle have empathy for consumers who are defrauded, swindled, and are tricked into entering trade under false premises. The debate isn't should there be mechanisms...

Published Sun, Sep 09 2010 8:17 PM by Alex Merced

Filed under: Public Sector, Private Sector, Regulation, Austrian Economics, Fraud, Regulatory Capture, Securities Act of 1933, Confidence

A Response to Alan Harvey's Demand Side Podcast

A Response to Alan Harvey's Demand Side Podcast by Alex Merced This is a Response to THIS episode of Alan Harvey's Demand Side Podcast As an anarcho-capitalist aspiring austrian economist , one may ask why would I bother consuming such media such...

Published Tue, Aug 08 2010 11:48 AM by Alex Merced

Filed under: Keynesian, Austrian Economics, Podcast, Alan Harvey, Demand Side

Labor Economics #3 - The Minimum Wage

Labor Economics #3 - The Minimum Wage by Alex Merced One of the most sancrosanct bastions of Labor laws is the minimum wage, and if you want to go beyond this article in learning about it listen to Roger Garrisons lecture on topic from Mises U 2010 ....

Published Sat, Aug 08 2010 7:03 PM by Alex Merced

Filed under: liberty, Unemployment, Austrian Economics, Labor, Wealth Transfer, Minimum Wage

Labor Economics #1 - Sticky Wages

Labor Economics #1 - Sticky Wages by Alex Merced The next few posts I'll be writing will be a series on some aspects of labor economics which will mainly center around wages and upward mobility. In this initial part of the series I'm going to...

Published Fri, Aug 08 2010 4:45 PM by Alex Merced

Filed under: Inflation, Keynesian, Deflation, Austrian Economics, High Wages, Stick Wages, John Maynard Keynes, Labor

The Federal Reserve, Price Stability, and CPI

The Federal Reserve, Price Stability, and CPI by Alex Merced While here at LibertyisNow.com I've been discussing several economic and philosohical concepts regarding individualism and Liberty, no war is won over night yet strewn across many hard fought...

Published Thu, Aug 08 2010 12:59 PM by Alex Merced

Filed under: Federal Reserve, Austrian Economics, 1870, 1920, Andrew Jackson, Macroeconomics, CPI, Martin Van Buren, Microeconomics, Price Stability, History, 1913, 1929, Full Employment

Summarizing Jorg Guido Hulsmann's Lecture on Deflation

Summarizing Jorg Guido Hulsmann's Lecture on Deflation by Alex Merced Listen to his Mises U Lecture on Deflation One of my favorite topics and debates is the Inflation/Deflation debate, of Hulsmann has written extensively about putting him in my top...

Published Sat, Aug 08 2010 10:53 AM by Alex Merced

Filed under: Prices, Deflation, Austrian Economics, Politics, Structure of Production, 1843, Power, 1870, 1920, 1839

A Respone to Peter Kleins Lecture on Entrepeneurship

A Respone to Peter Kleins Lecture on Entrepeneurship by Alex Merced This is a Response to Peter Kleins Lecture on Entrepeneurship In this lecture Peter Klein does a great job discussing different aspects of defining the entrepeneur, so to sum up two of...

Published Fri, Aug 08 2010 11:36 AM by Alex Merced

Filed under: Schumpeter, Entrepeneurship, Mises U, Austrian Economics

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