The 'creative destruction' theory of boom and bust is no guide to today's economic turbulence. Testifying recently before a United States congressional committee, former Federal Reserve chairman Alan ...

Please Note: Blog posts are not selected, edited or screened by Seeking Alpha editors. When times are tough, we start to question ourselves: why? Why do we deserve it? How long will it last? Will this ...

Austrian Business Cycle Theory (ABCT) provides a framework for understanding economic fluctuations, particularly how monetary policy and interest rates influence investment and capital valuation. This ...

I highly recommend Brad Plumer’s article on economists studying the economies that exist inside big multiplayer video games. There’s just one thing that I want to add to the mix, namely that I really ...

There is a growing view that the U.S. business cycle has changed (for better) in a more diversified economy. To some, that sounds like tempting fate. By Talmon Joseph Smith For much of modern history, ...

Housing construction, measured by housing starts, leads GDP in a number of countries. Measured as residential investment, the lead is observed only in the United States and Canada; elsewhere, ...