Archive for Jay Habegger
Origins of the Chinese Hyperinflation
Mr. Habegger is a student at the University of Colorado in Boulder. He was a summer intern at FEE in 1986. Between 1935 and 1949, China experienced a hyperinflation in which prices rose by more than a thousandfold.[1] The immediate cause of the inflation is easy to isolate: the Nationalist government continually injected large amounts [...]
1Sep1988 | Jay Habegger | 1 comment | ContinuedHow the Fed Fooled Farmers
Jay Habegger is a sophomore at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He was an intern at FEE during the summer of 1986. The crisis in agriculture has moved to the forefront of national attention. Scarcely a day passes without a story on the evening news about farm foreclosures or farmers pleading for financial relief. [...]
1May1987 | Jay Habegger | 0 comments | ContinuedInflation, Money, and Freedom
Jay Habegger is a sophomore at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He was an intern at FEE this past summer, preparing research materials for the 1986-87 high school debate topic. This essay was a runner-up in The Foundation for Economic Education’s 1985-1986 Freedom Essay Contest. It is widely believed that the [...]
1Sep1986 | Jay Habegger | 1 comment | Continued-
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