victory—it is time to engage in a deeper economic critique of Obama’s actual policies . Once we see the true effects of his policies and the incentives they If a private company is making losses for whatever reason, it must change and innovate in order to make a profit or it will continually make losses and go out of neither governments nor entrepreneurs have any way of perfectly forecasting the innovations that will take place in the future, there is, however, one enormous and
how the Fed’s fixation on promoting price inflation is a big problem: The Fed’s policies severely undermine the middle class by making goods and services more who promise to help the middle class support this insidious wage-reduction policy. Inflation has very little visibility, but slowly, like negative compound But deflation can be good. It results from greater efficiency, competition, and innovation — the stock-in-trade of American industry. Our standard of living is
to destabilize financial markets. Most commentators have endlessly praised the innovative methods that Bernanke and his colleagues are introducing to counter the financial problems. Bernanke is of the view that by means of aggressive monetary policy the credit markets can be normalized. Once credit markets are brought back to — this undermines various bubble activities. The damage from the loose monetary policies of the Fed from January 2001 to June 2004 cannot be undone by trying to fix
hold on to inventory as long. The maintenance of profitability involves relentless innovation, keen-eyed cost watching and cutting, and constant attention to the by cutting costs. In other words, it is the inflationary pressure of bad monetary policy that has affected these sectors more than any other. The relatively free
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emphasis on its contribution to the 2008 crisis and then suggests an alternative policy which, had it been in place would have dampened the most recent boom and bust. on the 2008 crisis points to different perpetrators, from flawed financial innovations such as collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) to weak regulations, from as long as it is the natural consequence of improvements, such as technological innovation, from which lower production costs are a beneficial byproduct. Conclusions
reason: “What’s missing in most analysis is the impact of inflationary monetary policy. Since 2001, and especially since September 2007 - when the Fed started directly controls. Unfortunately, because of globalization and financial-market innovation, money itself has become hard to measure and useless as a forecasting
at our Austrian Economics Research Conference, Hastings outlined how technological innovation is already making centralized “designed” systems obsolete, and how McMaken Mises Contra Marx by David Gordon 7 Steps Toward a More Sensible Foreign Policy by Patrick Barron Economic Wisdom From Harvard by Hunter Lewis How Central
after 2008. That may have diluted the significance of the Fed Funds rate as a policy tool, but it has absolutely not severed the link between open market purchases probably need to hold less cash balances than if they got paid every quarter); (4) Innovations in the clearing system (innovations by Visa and other methods of money
mucking around with the market function interest rates ought to serve. Time, not “policy,” is key to understanding interest rates. As the author states in his the rate of interest to the rate of profit, Marxists argued that capitalist innovation in money leads to an even greater concentration of (monetary) capital in
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