Nothing too deep in this post, mostly some thoughts on the recent crackdowns in Britain against speech.
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This chapter is about the “genetics” of the inflation, rather than the “anatomy,” to use Rothbard’s words. Basically, in this chapter, we’re interested in the cast of characters and how they were interacting.
Our primary characters are Benjamin Strong, Governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York during most of the 1920s, and Montagu Norman, head of the Bank of England at the same time.
Rothbard describes their interactions and secret backroom deals to push more inflation and make the inevitable depression worse!
Read my show notes here.
This video is available on Odysee, BitChute, and YouTube.
References:
Harris, Twenty Years of Federal Reserve Policy
https://archive.org/details/twentyyearsoffed0000seym/page/n7/mode/2up
Lary, The United States in the World Economy: The International Transactions of the United States During the Interwar Period
https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/title/united-states-world-economy-9204?page=3
Berglund, The Tariff Act of 1922
https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/1804045.pdf
Beckhart, The New York Money Market
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.7312/beck93862/html?lang=en#contents
Smith, Facing the Facts; An Economic Diagnosis
https://archive.org/details/facingfactsecono0000smit
Putnam, What Shall We Do About Depressions?
https://www.jstor.org/stable/2349663
Aldrich, The Causes of the Present Depression and Possible Remedies
https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Causes_of_the_Present_Depression_and.html?id=iijIAAAAMAAJ
Viner, Political Aspects of International Finance
https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/2349238.pdf
Hoover, The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover
https://archive.org/details/memoirsofherbert0002hoov
Viner, Political Aspects of International Finance II
https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/2349531.pdf
Warren, Herbert Hoover and the Great Depression
https://archive.org/details/herberthoovergre0000warr_f2d0
Robbins, The Great Depression
https://mises.org/library/book/great-depression
Beveridge, Unemployment: A Problem of Industry
https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=1qgrAQAAMAAJ&rdid=book-1qgrAQAAMAAJ&rdot=1
Benham, British Monetary Policy
https://books.google.com/books/about/British_Monetary_Policy.html?id=cJovAAAAYAAJ
Clark, Central Banking Under the Federal Reserve System…
https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/title/central-banking-federal-reserve-system-314
Rist, Notice Biographique
https://www.jstor.org/stable/24689652
Chandler, Benjamin Strong, Central Banker
https://archive.org/details/benjaminstrongce0000chan
Clay, Lord Norman
https://archive.org/details/lordnorman0000clay
Crosby, Commercial and Financial Chronicle (May 9, 1925)
https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/title/commercial-financial-chronicle-1339/may-9-1925-518311
Palyi, Review: The Meaning of the Gold Standard
https://www.jstor.org/stable/2349926
Hardy, Credit Policies of the Federal Reserve System
https://mises.org/library/book/credit-policies-federal-reserve-system
Adams, The International Gold Standard Reinterpreted
https://archive.org/details/internationalgol0002brow/mode/2up
Anderson, Economics and the Public Welfare
https://archive.org/details/economicspublicw0000ande/mode/2up
Warburg, The Federal Reserve System (Vol. 2)
https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/files/docs/publications/books/frsorigin1930/frsorigin_warburg_1930v2.pdf
Willis, The Failure of the Federal Reserve
https://www.jstor.org/stable/25110746
Reed, Federal Reserve Policy 1921-1930
https://archive.org/details/federalreservepo0000haro/page/n7/mode/2up
Abbott, The New York Bond Market, 1920-1930
https://books.google.com/books/about/The_New_York_Bond_Market_1920_1930.html?id=z0wUAQAAMAAJ
Snyder, Capitalism the Creator
https://mises.org/library/book/capitalism-creator
Hoyt, The Effect of Cyclical Fluctuations Upon Real Estate Finance (Speech)
https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/files/docs/historical/fdic/speeches/hoyt_19470125.pdf
Hoyt, The Effect of Cyclical Fluctuations Upon Real Estate Finance
https://www.jstor.org/stable/2975516
Durant, Commercial and Financial Chronicle (April 20, 1929)
https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/title/commercial-financial-chronicle-1339/april-20-1929-516890
Lawrence, Wall Street and Washington
https://lawcat.berkeley.edu/record/521500
https://books.google.com/books/about/Wall_street_and_Washington.html?id=93tEAAAAIAAJ
Irving, The Stock Market Crash–and After
https://books.google.com/books/about/The_stock_market_crash_and_after.html?id=mYREAAAAIAAJ
Beckhart, Federal Reserve Policy and the Money Market, 1923-1931
I could not find a good source, even paywalled, for this article. Best I could find was a citation, here:
https://www.econbiz.de/Record/federal-reserve-policy-and-the-money-market-1923-1931-beckhart-benjamin-haggott/10001892048
Willis & Chapman, The Economics of Inflation
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.7312/will93390/html?lang=en
Hardy, Credit Policies of the Federal Reserve System
https://mises.org/library/book/credit-policies-federal-reserve-system
Phillips, Banking and the Business Cycle
https://mises.org/library/book/banking-and-business-cycle
Noyes, The Gold Inflation in the United States 1921-1929
https://www.jstor.org/stable/418
We continue our deep dive into Murray Rothbard’s classic text on the Great Depression!
Today, we’re looking at the second half of Chapter Four, which examines four different sources of inflation that the Federal Reserve controlled and exacerbated in the period between 1921-1929.
A short video about the negative effects of egalitarianism, especially Marxian versions of egalitarianism, on economic policy, culture, and aesthetics, but especially on aesthetics.
Here is my summary and study guide for the first half of chapter four, up to (but not including) the section “Treasury Currency” on page 116 of the fifth edition.
Rothbard is hitting us hard with data and references in this part, so be prepared!
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Murphy and Newman on MMT
Very quick post here, but as a part of Mises University, the great Bob Murphy and Jonathan Newman did a fantastic talk about Modern Monetary Theory and some of the sticking points people walk into when they try to argue against it.
At the end of the talk, Dr. Newman mentions the book “The Theory of Idle Resources” by William H. Hutt. What he didn’t say is that the whole book is available free at the Mises Institute website.
Get your copy here!
Breaking down the fallacies and dangerous conclusions of MMT is one of the best things you can do today!
I am pleased to say that the Mises Institute has published another one of my essays! This time, it’s an essay that organizes and crystallizes my thoughts about Modern Monetary Theory, specifically the negative effects of moving goods from the private sphere to the public sphere.
Find it at the Mises Institute website here.
This last part of chapter 3 finishes out part one of the book, and should be the last bit of really heavy lifting in economic theory. The next part starts Rothbard’s historical examination of the circumstances leading up to the Great Depression, so we may find things less dense, but who knows!
My notes can be found here.