Booms and Busts

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Daniel Lacalle

Using Japan as a model, governments are steering us toward a worldwide zombie economy — but we're likely to end up with something that looks more like Argentina than Japan.

Bradley Thomas

Government stimulus plans blow up new bubbles to replace the old ones that had previously been created by government also. Let's end the cycle of wealth destruction.

Claudio Grass

The European central bank has no ammunition left with which to address any serious economic downturn.

Diego Santizo

The Chinese debt is overwhelming not simply because of the volume, but because the figure has quadrupled in seven years.

Douglas French

Economic disasters often lead to a rise in the number of people willing to work in the sex trades — which are staffed mainly by desperate people.

Douglas French

Skyscrapers that set world records for height don’t cause economic panics, but are, instead, a warning a boom has reached its peak.