The Financial Crisis

The global financial crisis has been extremely painful for many. Unemployment is high, paper wealth has vanished, and governments around the world are mired in a mountain of debt. The wealth from people that produce is being expropriated at an increasing rate to fund the special interest of the growing Welfare/Warfare / Corporatist State.

What caused the 2008 global financial crisis? Why aren’t the government solutions leading to a recovery?

Suggested Resources

• What government broke, government cannot fix  by Steve Horwitz
• What Made the Next Depression Worse  by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr
• The Myth that Laissez Faire Is Responsible for Our Present Crisis    by George Reisman
• Once More, with Feeling: Our System Is Not Socialism, but Participatory Fascism by Robert Higgs
  
• The Bailout Reader  by The Mises Institute
• Regulation: The Cause, Not the Cure, of the Financial Crisis by Roderick T. Long
• Some Additional Reflections on the Economic Crisis and the Theory of the Cycle by Jesus Huerta de Soto
• The Real Causes of the Financial Crisis (.pdf) by John Allison
• Financial Crises and the Global Financial System – The Cato Institute
• The parable of the broken traffic lights: When good signals go bad by Steven Horwitz
  

 

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