America Needs a Good, Old-Fashioned Economic Depression (Jay Zawatsky, The National Interest)

Describing what he called the “crack-up boom”, Ludwig von Mises, the great Austrian economist, said:

The boom cannot continue indefinitely. There are two alternatives. Either the banks continue the credit expansion without restriction and thus cause constantly mounting price increases and an ever-growing orgy of speculation – which, as in all other cases of unlimited inflation, ends in a “crack-up boom” and in a collapse of the money and credit system.
Or the banks stop before this point is reached, voluntarily renounce further credit expansion, and thus bring about the crisis. The depression follows in both instances. (emphasis added)

http://nationalinterest.org/feature/the-coming-crack-boom-16911