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100 Years of Mismanagement
100 Years of Mismanagement Lost From the Get-Go There must be some dark corner of Hell warming up for modern, mainstream economists. They helped bring on the worst bubble ever… with their theories of efficient markets and modern portfolio management. They failed to see it for what it was. Then, when trouble came, they made […]
The Keynesian House Of Denial
The Keynesian House Of Denial We use the term “Keynesian” loosely to stand for economic interventionists of all schools. The followers of JM Keynes and Milton Friedman alike fit that category. So do some of the more rabid supply siders who claim the power to stimulate ultra-high economic growth with the tools of tax policy alone. The […]
Keynes in 1939: The Coming War Will Solve our Unemployment Problem
Keynes in 1939: The Coming War Will Solve our Unemployment Problem On the eve of World War II, Keynes delivered the following chilling address on the BBC, talking about the “great experiment” of curing unemployment through war expenditure: J. M. Keynes, When the Day of Peace Comes Two years later to the day, in a lecture delivered shortly […]
The Follies and Fallacies of Keynesian Economics
THE FOLLIES AND FALLACIES OF KEYNESIAN ECONOMICS Eighty years go, on February 4, 1936, one of the most influential books of the last one hundred years was published, British economist, John Maynard Keynes’s The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money. With it was born what has become known as Keynesian Economics. Within less than a […]
Modern Finance: I’ll be gone, you’ll be gone
Modern Finance: I’ll be gone, you’ll be gone In his book Other People’s Money: The Real Business of Finance, author John Kay quotes Lord Keynes’s idiom, “Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are generally distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back.” The men and women with authority over […]
The World’s Most Famous Case Of Hyperinflation (Part 1)
The World’s Most Famous Case Of Hyperinflation (Part 1) The Great War ended on the 11th hour of November 11th, 1918, when the signed armistice came into effect. Though this peace would signal the end of the war, it would also help lead to a series of further destruction: this time the destruction of wealth […]
Are Negative Rates Fueling Deflation?
Are Negative Rates Fueling Deflation? Those in power never understand markets. They are very myopic in their view of the world. The assumption that lowering interest rates will “stimulate” the economy has NEVER worked, not even once. Nevertheless, they assume they can manipulate society in the Marxist-Keynesian ideal world, but what if they are wrong? By lowering […]
The Krugman Con
The Krugman Con Gold’s biggest enemy is a brilliant Nobel Prize winning economist, university professor and columnist for the New York Times. Sadly, he is also a con man. Last week Paul Krugman wrote a column for the New York Times in which he called Republican Paul Ryan, a “con man.” The Republican chairman of […]
Goldman Sachs——-Perpetuator Of The Fed’s Jihad Against Savers
Goldman Sachs——-Perpetuator Of The Fed’s Jihad Against Savers You can’t blame Janet Yellen entirely for the growing prospect that the Fed will take a powder on Wednesday and opt for the 81st straight month of ZIRP. After all, she’s basically a fuddy duddy school marm caught in a 1970s labor economics time warp—–a branch of the […]
OPEC Divorce And Self-Destruction Thanks To Saudi Oil Strategy?
OPEC Divorce And Self-Destruction Thanks To Saudi Oil Strategy? “If you are the world’s leading energy economy, you produce energy, that’s what you do.” “A government can stay irrational longer than it can stay solvent.” “Even in the short term, you’re dead, if you commit suicide.” The first quote modifies a GEICO commercial describing a free-range chicken […]
How Keynes Almost Prevented the Keynesian Revolution
How Keynes Almost Prevented the Keynesian Revolution October 30, 1929. A brisk autumn’s day in Manhattan. The Savoy-Plaza Hotel’s thirty-three stories cast a long shadow over Central Park. At the base of the hotel a financier lies freshly fallen, motionless, while his last breath, wrenched from the lungs by force of impact, is now a […]
Why Keynesian voodoo doesn’t work?
Why Keynesian voodoo doesn’t work? Keynesian policy of manipulating economic “aggregates” through countercyclical macro-measures appeared to work when balance sheets was not stretched to the brink. As we wrote in “Goebbelnomics” “If collective exuberance and apathy is the sole cause of the business cycle, then it logically follows that human emotions need to be manipulated […]
The Euthanasia Of The Saver
The Euthanasia Of The Saver What have been the economic consequences of ultra-low interest rates? The answer might not be as hopeful as you may think. While better known for the role of government in stimulating the economy, John Maynard Keynes, one of the most influential economists of the 20th century, also provided the intellectual […]
A Practical Utopian’s Guide to the Coming Collapse – David Graeber on “The Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs”
A Practical Utopian’s Guide to the Coming Collapse – David Graeber on “The Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs” Graeber’s argument is similar to one he made in a 2013 article called “On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs”, in which he argued that, in 1930, economist John Maynard Keynes predicted that by the end of the century technology would have […]
BusinessWeek Wants YOU To Become A Keynesian Debt Slave | Zero Hedge
BusinessWeek Wants YOU To Become A Keynesian Debt Slave | Zero Hedge. There are those, increasingly more of them, including such shocking statist luminaries as Alan Greenspan (the person more responsible for today’s global depression than anyone else) and the Treasury Borrowing Advisory Committee, who are realizing that the old debt=growth, saving=bad, spending=prosperity and inflation=utopia economic paradigm, the one unleashed by John […]
