Parallel Universe: US S&P 500 versus US economic surprise index (hat tip Bloomberg's Tracy Alloway)
Stagflation Part 14: Q2 GDP at 2.3% and Falling — A GDP Built on Suppression and Debt
Public choice theory predicts exactly this: concentrated benefits and dispersed costs produce political pressure for expansion. Soverei...
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Massive money printing and debt accumulation have gone on for something like 80 years, and the system has held together. Why should it end... -
GDP is the most common out-of-context stat used by governments to convince the citizenry that all is well. It is yet another stat that is... -
Governments resist austerity. Politicians buy votes with spending. But because they do not control their domestic currency systems in Euro...