The Austrians versus the Mainstream Potter and His Wheel
If new capital is the direct product of government spending or the indirect result of its fiscal policy, we are all worse off.
If new capital is the direct product of government spending or the indirect result of its fiscal policy, we are all worse off.
This is old-fashioned redistribution, to sustain the unsustainable.
Money is the thing which serves as the generally accepted and commonly used medium of exchange.
Keynes has bamboozled us and it is very difficult to de-bamboozle ourselves.
Contrary to popular thinking, the threat posed to the major economies is not the liquidity trap, but the government and central bank stimulus policies aimed at countering it.
If the government reduces both taxes and spending, it will leave more money in private hands.