Does GDP Present an Accurate Picture of the Economy? Not Likely
The most popular measure of economic growth is GDP. However, GDP movement is driven by changes in the money supply, not real economic factors.
The most popular measure of economic growth is GDP. However, GDP movement is driven by changes in the money supply, not real economic factors.
Conservative icon William F. Buckley wanted a "totalitarian bureaucracy within our shores" to combat the communist threat. Far too many modern Chinaphobes are embracing a similarly deranged policy.
Official Washington and its Court Media are up in arms that someone has told the truth via leaking government documents. They won't rest until he is punished severely.
Even when currency is backed by gold, governments have many political reasons to pursue national, territorial currencies. Now there are hundreds of national currencies. It didn't have to be this way.
Austrian economics is not dry theory. It helps us make sense of our world and shows that exchange and production have a place in our moral universe.
Austrian business cycle theory points out that easy money leads to malinvestments. Once easy money disappears, the crash begins. Time to clean up malinvested assets.
Sounding almost Rothbardian, Summers said “These are things like forest fires, it is much easier to prevent them than it is to contain them after they start to spread.”
Attention Austrian school economists and enthusiasts: Philipp Bagus and I are pleased to announce the release of our new two-volume book in honor of Jesús Huerta de Soto!
Adherents of leftist dogma increasingly push the notion that teachers should be permitted to distract, confuse, or influence their students by discussing their personal beliefs, ideas, and private activities and choices in the classroom.