I have read and reread Tom Woods’s fantastic book, Meltdown. However, I’m stuck on a question concerning Austrian Business Cycle Theory. In particular, I would like to gain a better understanding of the impact of unutilized productive capacity in a market and its ability to absorb monetary stimulus …

There are two huge problems with stimulus spending It prevents prices from adjusting down to the point that they need to in order for the market to finally reach a recovery stage Prices are bid up in a boom, they need to fall to such a point where people will buy again. For instance when the bust…

Dang, posted once and it disappeared. Bottom line. The baker is not at full capacity for a reason, high costs of production and thus inability to lower prices and still profit. But high costs for the baker don’t just grow mysteriously like some weed. They too, have a reason. Somebody else is outbi…

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John_James January 30, 2012, 4:34pm 4

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