7/6/23 Ryan McMaken: Where in the Boom-Bust Cycle Are We?

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Scott Horton

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4.8 • 902 Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Scott is again joined by Ryan McMaken of the Mises Institute to talk about the economy. First, they examine the major fluctuations in the money supply to help us predict where in the boom-bust cycle we might be. They then identify the dominant economic philosophy of the U.S. government before finishing with a discussion of the national debt, housing and employment. Discussed on the show: “Money Supply Growth Falls to Depression-Era Levels for Second Month in April” (Mises.org) For a New Liberty by Murray Rothbard Ryan McMaken is executive editor at the Mises Institute. He has degrees in economics and political science from the University of Colorado, and was the economist for the Colorado Division of Housing from 2009 to 2014. He is the author of Breaking Away: The Case of Secession, Radical Decentralization, and Smaller Polities and Commie Cowboys: The Bourgeoisie and the Nation-State in the Western Genre. This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott. Get Scott’s interviews before anyone else! Subscribe to the Substack. Shop Libertarian Institute merch or donate to the show through Patreon, PayPal or Bitcoin: 1DZBZNJrxUhQhEzgDh7k8JXHXRjY Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	All right, y'all welcome to the Scott Horton's show.
0:02.0	I'm the director of the Libertarian Institute.
0:09.0	I'm the director of the Libertarian Institute,
0:14.8	editorial director of anti-war.com.
0:17.6	Author of the book, Pools Arran,
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0:24.8	terrorism and I've recorded more than 5,500 interviews since 2003 almost all on
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0:38.6	interview archive is also available at YouTube. YouTube. The Mises Institute. He is the editor there of their great website.
0:55.6	Welcome back to the show. How you doing, Ryan?
0:57.6	Hello, it's great to be with you. I'm okay.
1:00.6	Well, good. Happy to talk with you again.
1:04.0	Listen, so, um...
1:06.0	I don't have any money, so I necessarily don't know very much about all this market stuff.
1:14.0	But I do know about basic Mississessian business cycle theory,
1:20.0	the boom and the bust.
1:22.0	I've lived it my whole life I didn't even need to
1:24.4	read Jekyll Island man to know and so I'm always very interested in
1:30.2	what's happening with the economy.
1:32.6	Where in the cycle are we?
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