The Skyscraper Index Meets the Supertanker Index
Ships aren’t cheap to purchase. But when financing is abnormally cheap and expectations of future business are rosy, it stands to reason that shipping companies would put in a raft of orders.
Ships aren’t cheap to purchase. But when financing is abnormally cheap and expectations of future business are rosy, it stands to reason that shipping companies would put in a raft of orders.
Thanks to government loans, the price of college has skyrocketed in recent years because student loans mean colleges can raise their prices without driving away otherwise-price-sensitive students.
Implicit in Trump's economic statements is Mill's (and the Austrians') central message that there is no need to ever worry about the level of consumption, because it will always naturally adapt itself to the level of production.
Liberalism has no party flower and no party color, no party song and no party idols, no symbols and no slogans. It has the substance and the arguments.
Given the monetary dark arts being practiced around the world, I would much prefer my money in the hands of Gringotts goblin, than at the mercy of our Federal Reserve Chairman Who-Must-Not-Be-Named.
Institut Coppet in France has recently made available a French translation of Murray Rothbard's Education: Free and Compulsory.
Europe continues to move toward banning physical cash. But, in spite of government claims, it's not about fighting crime. It's about economic control.
If helicopter money is implemented, those who first gain the use of the new money may benefit by increasing consumption before prices rise, while others will see prices rise before they are able or willing to use the money. But the end result will be higher prices but no overall increase in welfare.
The modern drive to centralize European government and make a European superstate threatens to destroy what made Europe great in the first place.