1934 Chinese silver dollar with Sun Yat-sen on the obverse side. The ship may be in freshwater. I have been hitting my head against the...

1,682 is the number of days that the Dow Jones Industrial Average has spent rising since hitting rock bottom back in March 6, 2009. It ...

Garett Jones did a podcast on Irving Fisher at Econtalk last week. He talked about the Great Depression and Fisher's debt deflation ...

Gauti Eggertson's paper ( pdf ) claims that the US recovery from the Great Depression was driven by a shift in expectations caused by FD...

Bob Murphy asked whether Lionel Robbins was right in saying that central bank policy in the late 1920s and early 1930s was a complete rever...

Bob Murphy asks if central bank actions taken during the early 1930s might be considered "unprecedented". In the comments I point...

James Hamilton and Stephen Williamson recently commented on the Republican Party platform ( pdf ) which calls for a commission to inves...

David Glasner comments on a recent Deutsche Bank report in Deutsche Bank Gets It, Why Can’t Mrs. Merkel? . I point out in my comment that ...