COVID ZIRP Triggers ABCT in LV Industrial RE
The Zero Interest Rate Policy (ZIRP) implemented by central banks during COVID continues to provide real world examples of the Austrian Business Cy
The Zero Interest Rate Policy (ZIRP) implemented by central banks during COVID continues to provide real world examples of the Austrian Business Cy
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Mark Thornton discusses the economic implications of the historically high gold-silver ratio, suggesting it may signal an impending recession.
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Bankruptcy in the short term is painful. In the long term, it is cleansing decades of poor federal government choices.
Centralizing electricity management is probably a mistake. It makes us collectively vulnerable to a single failure or attack and also inefficient.