What do COVID lockdowns, currency collapses, and hyperinflation all have in common? According to Steve Hanke, they all reveal how central planners manipulate fear, money, and power to control society.

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How Textiles Made the World

What happened to the Shanghai Stock Exchange when the Communists took over China?

Dr. Richard A. Werner der Vater der quantitativen Lockerung präsentiert uns in diesem ausführlichen Vortrag vom Event "Marc lädt ein 2024" die Geschichte und Hintergründe der Kreditgebung. Warum er meint, die Inflation wäre eine Lüge und sei gewollt, wieso wir Dezentralität brauchen und jede Menge weitere Informationen, jetzt!

Stock Market Closures: Why Keep Investors from Trading?

Country shares of global equity markets

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The Nikkei 225 just hit a new high! It has broken through 40,000 for the first time in history!

Patrick Newman argues that the 1919-1920 business cycle was due to monetary expansion, and that Borazan's (2023) "administrative decree" about resuming expansionary policy is inapplicable. Wage cuts aided recovery.

2021 and 2022 were among the worst years for fixed-income investors in developed markets in world history.

There are years that are remembered by all investors when bull markets hit tops or bear markets hit bottoms. Some of the years associated with global market tops are 1720, 1929, 1987 and 2007. Similarly, there are years when global markets hit bottoms in 1848, 1932, 1974, 2009 and 2020. But some market bottoms have been forgotten.

In the first full biography of Friedrich Hayek (1899-1992), Alan Ebenstein chronicles the life, works, and legacy of the visionary thinker, from his early years in fin-de-siècle Vienna to his remarkable career as a Nobel Prize winning economist, political philosopher, and leading public intellectual.

“Evidently, bonds got tired of being called boring and decided to grab some headlines."