On Wednesday, November 2, 2022, the Fed raised the target for the policy rate by 0.75 percent, to 4.00 percent, for the…
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[Chapter 8 of Per Bylund’s new book How to Think about the Economy: A Primer.] The Boom-Bust Cycle The economy’s constant flux is not…
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Ryan McMaken and Tho Bishop talk with economic anthropologist Jovana Diković about how a focus on “solving” global warming endangers the food…
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As mortgage rates have risen this year, the demand for home purchases has fallen. That has spelled trouble for the home construction…
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Roman keynesianism that ruined the empire and destroyed the Roman economy. Original Article: “It Didn’t Begin with FDR: Currency Devaluation in the Third…
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Commentaries about World War I frequently discuss causes and consequences but almost never mention the enablers. At best, they might mention them…
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The dollar’s petrodollar status has led the Federal Reserve to irresponsibly inflate the currency. The rest of the world has noticed and is…
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When I was a child, my mother and I would take the Long Island Railroad to Brooklyn to see relatives a few…