The Great Depression: A Short History

By Jeff Harding

This article on the Great Depression was written in 1969 by Hans Sennholz, an Austrian theory scholar and professor. Ludwig von Mises had escaped the Nazis in Vienna and then in Switzerland to arrive in New York in 1940. Mises arrived with nothing, almost the last surviving scholar of the Austrian School.  Sennholz was Mises’s first [...]

Mr. Fixit

By Jeff Harding

I am on my high horse right now. Refreshed after a week off I come back to an economic mess. And I’m angry. I like to think that I’m an optimist. That attitude has been difficult to maintain with the news out of Washington. Nouriel Roubini claims he’s not “Dr. Doom,” just a [...]

Bernanke: A Stunning Revelation

By Jeff Harding        

Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke gave a startling commencement address for the Boston College School of Law Class of 2009 this week. He admitted an apparent turnabout of his fundamental views of economics. No news media picked up the significance of what he was saying.

After the introductory [...]