Hunter Hastings of Economics for Business joins Jeff for a thoroughgoing discussion of how monetary and fiscal policy distort capital markets and create perverse incentives for financialization rather than real production.
Jeff Deist, “Does M&A benefit the economy?”: https://Mises.org/HAP373-A
Rothbard’s America’s Great Depression: https://Mises.org/AGD
The Economics for Business Podcast: https://Mises.org/E4Bpod
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00:00 Introduction
00:58 Are Capital Markets Useful?
09:09 Do Capital Markets Create Value for Consumers?
19:33 Overvaluation in the Stock Market
26:48 Private vs. Public Equity
