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 Empirical 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?” by Robert Murphy
Related Episodes
Ep. 1180 Inflation: Its Cultural and Political Consequences
Ep. 721 The Moral and Material Disasters of Fiat Money
Ep. 529 Leftist Site Attacks Gold Standard; Here’s Our Smackdown
Ep. 518 Woods Speech: What Has Government Done to Our Money?
Ep. 394 There Is Nothing to Fear About Deflation
Ep. 135 Money, Sound and Unsound
Ep. 37 The Deflation “Threat”
Free Resources!
1) Free guide on how to start your blog or website. Click here to get it. Plus, check out my step-by-step video taking you from no blog to a blog in about five minutes!
2) Free publicity for your blog. As a special thanks if you get your hosting through one of my affiliate links (this one for Bluehost, or this one for WP Engine), I’ll boost your blog. Click here for details.
3) Free History Course: The U.S. Presidents — Politically Incorrect Edition. Get access to this 22-lesson course: 22 videos, 22 mp3 files for listening on the go, and a bibliography of reliable books on the presidents. Get it at FreeHistoryCourse.com!.
4) $160 in Free Bonuses. Free signed copy of my New York Times bestseller The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History, plus a free 10-lesson bonus course on the foundations of liberty, plus a free year’s subscription to LibertyClassroom.com, when you subscribe to the Ron Paul Curriculum site through RonPaulHomeschool.com.
5) Free Books. Boost your intellectual ammunition with my free libertarian eBooks, including 14 Hard Questions for Libertarians — Answered, Bernie Sanders Is Wrong, and Education Without the State. Find them at TomsFreeBooks.com.