Posts belonging to Category 'Bust of 2008'

Russ Roberts — Punching Back Twice as Hard

Russ Robert pushes back against Barack Obama and the leftist attack on market theory in an outstanding podcast explaining the foundations of the 2000-2010 boom & bust cycle.  Roberts identifies government sponsored creditor bailouts as the central ultimate cause of the current boom and bust cycle, including within this cause the famed Greenspan Put — the assurance of a Keynesian monetary bailout for unsustainable creditor loans financing unsustainable capital investment bubbles in high tech, housing and elsewhere in the economy.