The 'Flation Debate

Compiled from newshours, reading list, and commentary

Financial Sense Newshour Coverage

October 3, 2009

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• Inflation/Deflation: Summary & Conclusion

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• Inflation/Deflation: Summary & Conclusion - Continued

September 26, 2009

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• Harry S. Dent, Jr., Founder & CEO, HS Dent
  Topic: The Inflation/Deflation Debate: Why Deflation is Inevitable

September 19, 2009

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• The Great Deflation/Inflation Debate with Daniel R. Amerman & Michael 'Mish' Shedlock
• Oct. 10, FSU article "Can Theory & Jargon Destroy Your Net Worth?" by Amerman

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• Marc Faber, Ph.D., Editor, Gloom Boom & Doom Report
  Topic: Another Case for Inflation

September 12, 2009

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• Government Failures: Repeating the Mistakes of History
• The Road to New Global Currency
• Inflation and the Fall of the Roman Empire
• Other Voices: Bud Conrad, Chief Economist, Casey Research

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• Peter D. Schiff , President, Euro Pacific Capital & Author
  Topic: The Case for Inflation

Further Reading

• Economic Contractions in the United States by Charles K. Rowley and Nathanael Smith (IEA)
• Trade and Development Report, 2009 by UN Conference on Trade & Development
• Inflation and the Fall of the Roman Empire by Joseph Peden (Mises Daily)
• China alarmed by US money printing by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard (Telegraph.co.uk)
• UN wants new global currency to replace dollar by Edmund Conway (Telegraph.co.uk)

September 5, 2009

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• Robert R. Prechter, Jr.
  CEO, Elliott Wave Int'l, & Author
  Topic: The Great Deflation/Inflation Debate

Additional Commentary by Jim Puplava

The Core Rate (Stormwatch Update)
The Great Inflation: Part 1 (Perspective Series)

Recommended Reading List

1. Age of Inflation
   by Hans F. Sennholz. 207 pages, Western Islands, June 1, 1979
2. America's Great Depression
   by Murray N. Rothbard. 368 pages, Ludwig Von Mises Institute, June 15, 2000. Can be viewed at Mises.org
3. Balance of Payments: Proposals for the Resolution of the Most Pressing
   World Economic Problem of Our Time
   by Jacques Rueff. 215 pages, Macmillan, 1977, out of print with limited availability
4. Dying of Money: Lessons of the Great German & American Inflations
   by Jens O. Parsson. Wellspring PR, April 1, 1974, currently unavailable
5. The Economics of Inflation (Routledge Library Editions-Economics, 84)
   by Constantino Bresciani-Turroni. 427 pages, Routledge, reprint edition, October 1, 2003, first published 1937
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6. From Bretton Woods to World Inflation: A Study of Causes and Consequences
   by Henry Hazlitt. 179 pages, Regnery Pub, May 1, 1984, available from third-party sellers
7. The Great Inflation, Germany 1919-23
   by William Guttmann. Scribner, September 1975, out of print with limited availability
8. Great Inflations of the 20th Century: Theories, Policies and Evidence
   by Pierre L. Siklos. 308 pages, Edward Elgar Publishing, December 1, 1995
9. The Great Wave: Price Revolutions and the Rhythm of History
   by David Hackett Fischer. 552 pages, Oxford University Press, Reprint Edition, June 1, 2000
10. Monetary Policy and the Great Inflation in the United States: the Federal Reserve and the Failure of Macroeconomic Policy, 1965-1979
    by Thomas Mayer. 151 pages, Edward Elgar Publishing, March 1, 1999
11. The Organization of Debt into Currency and Other Paper (The Right Wing Individualist Tradition in America)
    by Charles Holt Carroll. 438 pages, Arno Press, 1972
12. What Has Government Done to Our Money?
    by Murray N. Rothbard. 119 pages, Ludwig Von Mises Institute, June 1, 1990. Can be viewed at Mises.org
13. When Money Dies: The Nightmare of the Weimar Collapse
    by Adam Fergusson. 256 pages, Kimber, 1975, available from third-party sellers

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