Milei Sets Aside Dollarization Plan Due to Politics
In a recent interview, the Argentine president said he would have ended up in prison if he dollarized the economy.
Financial Crisis
No, Low Interest Rates Did Not Justify Adding Trillions of Dollars to the National Debt
Especially because the once-dismissed possibility of rising rates is now a reality.
Apocalypse Tomorrow: Trump's Looming Indictment
Plus: the terrible case for pausing A.I. innovation
Blame the Government for the New Banking Crisis? Live With Lyn Alden, Arnold Kling and Zach Weissmueller
Join Reason on YouTube and Facebook Thursday at 1 p.m. Eastern for a discussion of the Silicon Valley Bank meltdown and bailout of depositors with economist Arnold Kling.
Bailouts Should Not Be the Norm
During the pandemic, the U.S. mortgage market avoided collapse without any bailouts. Here's how.
How the Fed Redistributed Wealth and Encouraged Reckless Corporate Behavior
The Lords of Easy Money argues that the Fed created an economy with nearly irresistible incentives for foolish choices.
What 9/11 and the Financial Crisis Teach Us About COVID-19
Sometime in 2021, the American people will be presented with a reorganized and newly empowered federal public health bureaucracy. As time passes, it will grow in size and scope.
Do You Feel $9,000 Richer, Punk?
The bad policy and worse politics of coronavirus stimulus spending
We Need Economists, Civil Libertarians, and Epidemiologists in the COVID-19 Discussion
The tradeoffs among considerations of health, prosperity, and liberty are catching up with us even if we don't want to acknowledge them.
Pandemic-Related Unemployment and Shutdowns Are a Recipe for Social Unrest
That's a huge concern as forecasters expect the U.S. unemployment rate in the months to come to surpass that seen during the depths of the Great Depression.
The Senate's COVID-19 Relief Bill Is a Crony Capitalist Dream
Plus: COVID-19 in prisons and jails, Trump campaign threatens TV stations, state disparities in new coronavirus cases, and more...
9/11, the Financial Crisis, and Now Coronavirus
The Reason Roundtable podcast looks at the crappy track record of government policy forged in crisis.
What Caused the 2008 Financial Crisis: Market Distortions or Market Failure? A Debate
Former BB&T Bank CEO John Allison vs. Moody's Mark Zandi
Was the 2008 Financial Crisis the Result of Market Failure or Government Intervention? Debate
Former head of BB&T and the Cato Institute John Allison and Moody's forecaster Mark Zandi square off on Wednesday, February 20 in New York.
Does Fractional Reserve Banking Pose a Threat to the Economy? Watch the Livestream.
Economists Robert Murphy and George Selgin face off at the Soho Forum.
Did Federal Deposit Insurance Corrupt the Banking System? [Reason Podcast]
George Selgin vs. Josh Barro at the Soho Forum.
Google Is Banning Payday Lending Ads. That Sucks.
The ad giant's new policy is good-hearted but desperately wrong-headed.
When Safety Measures Make Us Unsafe
How everything from seatbelts to bank deposit insurance can backfire
Operation Choke Point: The Government's Covert War on Small Business
A program meant to stamp out fraud has put a stranglehold on legitimate industries.
Why the U.S. Is the Next Greece: Doug Casey on America's Economic Problems
The global economy is in for a "catastrophe of historic proportions," says investor Doug Casey.
Carbon Markets or Recessions: Which Cuts Greenhouse Gases More?
The global financial crisis is responsible for 80 percent of Europe's GHG reductions.
Is Another Financial Crisis On the Way?
We didn't learn the lessons of the last crisis. Does that mean we're doomed to repeat it?
Is the Shale Revolution a 'Ponzi Scheme' or the End of Peak Oil?
"Ponzi scheme" or the end of Peak Oil?
The Financial Crisis of 1837
Trying to understand one of America's great economic downturns
'A Dog Whistle to the Left': Timothy Geithner's New Revelation
Did the Obama administration ask former U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner to lie?
Greenspan's Blindness
The former Fed chief seems oblivious to his role in the housing bubble, the financial crisis, and the recession.
JPMorgan To Settle Bad Mortgage Allegations With $13B Payout to Feds
Who encouraged those loans, again?
"Economics Teaches Us Humility": Q&A with George Mason University's Pete Boettke
What can the Austrian School of Economics teach us about the 2008 financial crisis?
Poll: Many Working Americans Over 50 Think it's Likely They'll Work For Pay in Retirement
Financial crisis not helping
The Housing and Financial Meltdowns Revisited
Five years after the housing and financial meltdown, self-styled progressives are still peddling the Glass-Steagall pseudoexplanation.
Why Doesn't the Real Estate Industry Face the Same Scrutiny as Wall Street?
Understanding a puzzling aspect of the financial crisis and its aftermath.
Unenthusiastic Reaction to Dow Closing at All-Time High on Wall Street
Fed stimulus and corporate profit both in part responsible for rising stocks
Feds Plan Lawsuit Against S&P over Mortgage Ratings
Company says it responded the best it could to financial situation
Two Cheers for the Coming Collapse of the U.S. Economy!
Jeffrey Rogers Hummel on Ending the Fed, Privatizing Money, and Why the Welfare State Will Fall
Nassim Taleb Talks Antifragile, Libertarianism, and Capitalism's Genius for Failure
The best-selling author of The Black Swan talks about his new book and why most public intellectuals aren't worth a damn.
Bernanke, Fed Blindsided by Financial Meltdown
They didn't see it coming and had no idea what they were dealing with
Fed's Fiscal Intervention Not a Boon for the Little Guys
Reserve's behavior more protection for big business
AIG Mulling Lawsuit Against the Government
Thinks biting the hand that feeds them might be a good idea
