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Deflation and Liberty

Deflation and Liberty is a free lecture series (1 recordings, 1.2 hours) you can stream or download at freecapitalists.org, with Jörg Guido Hülsmann.

Hülsmann's essay Deflation and Liberty, read in full, argues deflation is a liberating force. Working through Aristotle, the classical economists, Mises and Rothbard, with monetary figures current to around December 2002, it places the real threat in fractional reserve banking and fiat money.

Read the book: Deflation and Liberty by Jörg Guido Hülsmann, free to download here.

Cover painting: a Treasury teller weighs out gold for greenbacks on Resumption Day, New York, January 1879. See every painting in the art gallery.

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Deflation and Liberty

Jörg Guido Hülsmann · 1:10:45 · 16.3 MB

Hülsmann argues deflation, a contraction of the money supply, is not the catastrophe portrayed. He locates the real danger in fractional reserve banking and fiat paper money, which let central banks inflate in secret, and argues deflation is a liberating force that bankrupts the parasitic firms and political elites that inflation created.

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Is Deflation and Liberty free to listen to?: Yes. All 1 mirrored recording stream in the browser or download as audio, at no cost and with no signup.
How long is Deflation and Liberty?: 1 recording, 1.2 hours in total.
Is the book behind Deflation and Liberty available here?: Yes. Deflation and Liberty by Jörg Guido Hülsmann is in this archive as a free download, on its own page.
Is there a transcript of Deflation and Liberty?: Yes. Every lecture in the series has one, 8,783 words in total, free to read on each lecture's page and searchable in the browser.