Is the US Economy Close to Hitting Bottom?
Careful examination shows that, rather than protecting the economy, it is loose monetary policies that are the key source of boom-bust economic cycles.
Careful examination shows that, rather than protecting the economy, it is loose monetary policies that are the key source of boom-bust economic cycles.
The true point of this experiment is to encourage people to educate themselves about our current inflationist monetary policy.
It is savings — not demand — that enables the expansion of production of goods and services.
When confronted with the fact that Keynes' solutions would never work in the long run, he would dismissively say, "In the long run, we're all dead."
Fed economists — like mainstream macroeconomics in general — are intellectually bankrupt and clueless at best or dishonest propagandists at worst.
The requirements for wealth creation are simple: a favorable business climate free from overbearing regulation and a belief that the earnings from hard work and risk taking will not be confiscated by a government bent on the redistribution of income.
We have rejected the enrichments of a healthy capitalism in favor of an impoverishing government-run fascism. We have resurrected another great depression — and made America the crisis leader of the world, instead of, what it once was, the beacon for world prosperity.
There are only inflationists on Capital Hill and Obama has a bigger bag of boondoggles than FDR could have ever imagined.
Even if the "debt deflation" scenario is generally right, the absolute effect could be swamped by the relative effects, meaning that retirees on fixed dollar incomes could still get wiped out when their standard monthly expenses rise.
Government spending merely directs scarce factors of production away from their most productive uses.