The fact that prices are rising in a pandemic crisis is not a sign of success. It is evidence of central bankers' miserable failure and hurts every consumer who has seen revenues collapse by 10 or 20 percent.
Unless the Left's opponents focus on changing voters' ideological drift to the left, candidates who want to actually win elections will have to keep moving left also.
A trade deficit isn't actual evidence that anything is wrong. But if it were, one of the best things to do would be to reduce government spending. Unfortunately, politicians disagree.
They masses only choose between the ideologies developed by the intellectual leaders of mankind. But the masses' choice is final and determines the course of events. If they prefer bad doctrines, nothing can prevent disaster.
What matters is not whether the emergence of a bubble is associated with price rises but rather the fact that the emergence of a bubble gives rise to nonproductive bubble activities.
A repeated pattern of close elections accompanied by threats of violence (or actual violence) is a sign that something is wrong with a nation's political system.
Economic realities mean the socialist state would need to utilize the same method of discounting wages as capitalists do. The only difference is that under socialism, bureaucrats would do the "exploitation."
