allure of income inequality. Conservative talking points asserting that social and economic conditions are improving in the United States are unlikely to impact people indirect result of war shocks, contributed to wealth equalization by curbing the growth of large fortunes. However, their importance for overall, wealth accumulation
Williams of Shadowstats.com explains how and why. John is a vocal critic of modern economic reporting, which is manipulated to make the economy appear stronger than it compiles himself. And, his statistics paint an alarming picture: virtually all “growth“ in the US economy since the Crash of ‘08 has been artificially engineered by
Greenwald made the social media rounds with Carlson claiming that “libertarian economics is a scam perpetrated by the beneficiaries of the economic system.” Understandably, this quote made Carlson an immediate target for go-to examples illustrating the failures of the modern American economy is the growth of dollar stores. While some libertarians may dismiss Carlson’s critiques of
Foundation. As inflation remains high, even Washington’s preferred jobs and economicgrowth measures are beginning to weaken, fueling fears of stagflation. Peter, Ryan,
Donald Trump has announced his economic advisory team and unveiled a preliminary broad brush economic program that onerous taxes and regulations that are choking off capital accumulation and growth in labor productivity, but it is a movement in the right direction. More
of reckless yield-chasing investment schemes. This is an age of massive artificial economic imbalances and systemic risks. Such powerful interventions hurt the weakest of change and discovery, innovation and adaptation, destruction of the old and growth of the new, as winners become losers, on and on. And it is entirely
Many economic commentators view debt as a major risk factor as far as economic health is generators to grow the pool of savings or the subsistence fund and weakens the economicgrowth. Note that the heart of economicgrowth is the pool of savings or the
The short answer is no. According to the now mainstream narrative, the strong economic recovery of 1935-6 could have continued for much longer if it had not been of gold inflows from the start of that year. This meant the end of rapid growth in high-powered money supply. The trigger for these monetary policy changes
a sclerotic profession badly in need of a shakeup. Largely shut out of university economics departments after the Keynesian revolution of the 30s and 40s, brilliant the busts. The dismal science is in trouble, and it deserves to be in trouble. Economic axioms cannot be flouted without consequences—which means the central whether fiscal or monetary, will produce only ersatz and short-lived economicgrowth. Underlying incentives will continue to matter. Political movements in the US
Up From Statism Mises Review 2, No. 3 (Fall 1996) Making Economic Sense Murray N. Rothbard Ludwig von Mises Institute, 1995, 439 pgs. Murray of the so-called Pareto criterion, taken as the sum and substance of welfare economics, in a comment on a proposal for population control: “A grotesque example of who wanted to trade hers in. “If we start from the original ZPG [Zero Population Growth] plan,” Rothbard comments, “and we introduce the Boulding plan, wouldn’t
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