The brilliant thinking of Ludwig von Mises (1881-1973) has been unfairly besmirched by a rather absurd “money multiplier” theory puzzlingly embraced by his more modern followers. Mises’s self-proclaimed disciples have long promoted the fiction about money somehow multiplying itself via bank lending…
Continue reading on Forbes.
-
John Tamny is Founder and President of the Parkview Institute, editor of RealClearMarkets, senior fellow at the Market Institute, and Senior Economic Adviser to mutual fund firm Applied Finance Group. Tamny is the author of eight books. His latest is The Deficit Delusion: Why Everything Left, Right and Supply-Side Tell You About the National Debt Is Wrong. His others are Bringing Adam Smith Into the American Home: A Case Against Home Ownership, The Money Confusion, When Politicians Panicked: The New Coronavirus, Expert Opinion, and a Tragic Lapse of Reason, Popular Economics, Who Needs the Fed?, The End of Work, and They're Both Wrong: A Policy Guide for America's Frustrated Independent Thinkers.
View all posts
