Price inflation is about more than just paying more for a Big Mac. It has other, more insidious (and to the untrained eye, invisible) effects on society. Sponsor Support the Tom Woods Show! SupportingListeners.com Guest’s Website https://www.monetary-metals.com/woods Guest’s Twitter @jeffdeist Tom’s New Book! Get Tom’s new book Diary of… Read More
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Ep. 2402 How Inflation Poisoned Our Food
Matthew Lysiak discusses the various interests that combined to substitute cheap, fake food for the real food Americans used to eat. A key driving force: trying to conceal the effects of inflation on food prices by persuading Americans to consume cheap — and, it turns… Read More
Ep. 2092 Inflation: What Caused It and Where It’s Going
Gene Epstein joins us to discuss the roots of the current price inflation, and long he expects it to last. Sponsor My friend Buck Johnson interviews fascinating people who go against the grain of established opinion. Check out CounterflowPodcast.com . Guest’s Debating Society The Soho Forum Guest’s Book Econospinning: How to Read Between the Lines When the Media Manipulate the Numbers Guest’s… Read More
Ep. 2016 The Truth About Inflation
With price inflation now evident to everyone, I decided to revisit some fallacies (like Elizabeth Warren’s claim that price increases are caused by “greed”) about inflation and fiat money. Articles Mentioned “ Deflation and Depression: Is There an Empiric al Link?” by Andrew Atkeson and Patrick J. Kehoe“ Do Sticky Wages Weaken the Case for Markets? ” by Robert Murphy“ Are “Sticky Wages” a Market Failure?… Read More
Ep. 1180 Inflation: Its Cultural and Political Consequences
Jorg Guido Hulsmann, a senior fellow of the Mises Institute and a professor of economics at the University of Angers in France, discusses those aspects of inflation most people overlook, involving how it changes the very texture of life. Book Discussed The Ethics of Money Production Click here to read the book for free… Read More
Ep. 493 Juan de Mariana: Defender of Regicide, Ferocious Foe of Inflation, and Great Economist
Today we learn about the heroic sixteenth-century figure Juan de Mariana, who taught that regicide could be justified and that inflation was theft, and who anticipated important concepts central to the Austrian School of economics. About the Guest Eric Graf is a professor of medieval… Read More
So Where’s the Inflation?
A discussion I had with the Mises Institute ’s Mark Thornton while hosting the Peter Schiff Show .
Price Inflation Won’t Be a ‘Side Effect’ of the Fed’s Policy; Inflation IS the Policy
Bob Murphy explains.
No, Rick Santorum, We Don’t Need Inflation
Rick Santorum said the other day that the economy stagnates without inflation. That’s a fairly mainstream economic view, unfortunately, so I suppose I shouldn’t single out poor Rick for holding it. But I did anyway, so I could use it as an opportunity to present… Read More
Inflation, Deflation, and Money
I made this video in response to Rick Santorum’s claim that price inflation occurred under the gold standard in the U.S., and that inflation is necessary for economic growth. Here’s the Santorum video I was referring to: On inflation, and money in general, there is… Read More