Bastiat versus MMT
One doesn’t need to search modern economic literature to take on the MMT crowd. Just read Bastiat.
One doesn’t need to search modern economic literature to take on the MMT crowd. Just read Bastiat.
While the “Great Reset” involves an unholy alliance between governments and big businesses, implementing its policies is impossible without central banks suppressing interest rates. Now that rates are rising, people are finding firsthand the real costs of the “Great Reset.”
While the ruling classes insist that money is whatever the government says it is, historically money has been gold. That has not changed even in the age of debased currency.
No, Paul Krugman, the economy is not strong. The Fed and its supporters are in the "move along, there's nothing to see" mode when it comes to our troubled banking system.
Congresswomen Rashida Tlaib and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have introduced legislation to create government-owned banks, ostensibly to “increase accountability.” In truth, the banks would exist to fund progressive causes.
When an economy suffers a recession, some factors of production, such as labor, become unemployed. Keynesians believe that expanding credit and fiat money will bring back full employment. That's not how an economy works.
One doesn’t need to search modern economic literature to take on the MMT crowd. Just read Bastiat.
Markets are preparing for the Federal Reserve to “pivot”; that is, change directions from raising interest rates to cutting them. What does it mean? It means that the Fed’s leadership has learned nothing in the past several years.
When an economy suffers a recession, some factors of production, such as labor, become unemployed. Keynesians believe that expanding credit and fiat money will bring back full employment. That's not how an economy works.
While the Secret Service is best known as the guys in sunglasses protecting the president of the United States, the SS actually was created to enforce the fiat money regime during the Lincoln administration.