(White Paper) POLITICS AND ECONOMICS AND THE FED – TIME TO CLEAN HOUSE?
KEYNESIAN VS SUPPLY SIDE ECONOMIC THEORY - WILL SUPPLY SIDE THEORY GAIN THE STATUS IT DESERVES There is a lot of media chatter right now…
TRUMP’S SUPPLY SIDE POLICIES, THE KEYNESIAN FED AND THE STOCK MARKET
COULD THE STOCK MARKET BE SEVERELY OVER BOUGHT BY EARLY 2026 In Part 3 of a recent article, “The Unfortunate Connection Between Economics and Politics”,…
THE UNFORTUNATE CONNECTION BETWEEN ECONOMICS AND POLITICS
POLITICS GETS IN THE WAY OF PRUDENT ECONOMICS PART 1 - A SHORT LOOK - POLITICS AND THE RELEVANT HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT The basis…
THE PROSPECTS OF TRUMPS’ SUPPLY SIDE ECONOMIC POLICIES GIVEN EXISTING ECONOMIC CONDITIONS
The success of any economic plan that professes correcting the errors and economic damage created by an existing faulty plan must take into consideration the…
A KEYNESIAN THUMB ON THE SCALE AGAIN – WRONG AGAIN!
Prior to the 2016 presidential election Mark Zandy of Moody Analytics projected that the Trump tax proposals would have a negative impact on the economy.…
POLITICIZING ENERGY AND WORLD ORDER – WHAT A MESS!
If energy, specifically oil and natural gas, were allowed to be produced and consumed in a free market environment in the global marketplace, economic growth…
Price Controls Do Not Work – Sub Prime Loans Are Another Quagmire
Given all the discussion of price controls that has erupted since Kamala Harris made a pitch for such a policy to deal with the inflated…
IT’S A POLITICAL YEAR – THE FAR LEFTS’S COMMUNICATION SKILLS SHINE AGAIN – PART TWO of TWO
MAJOR POLICY ISSUES WHERE ECONOMICS PLAYS A ROLE THAT SHOULD BE ADDRESSED. SOME BASIC ECONOMIC POLICY REALITIES. The Fed was slow to react to the…
IT’S A POLITICAL YEAR – THE FAR LEFTS’ COMMUNICATION SKILLS SHINE AGAIN – PART ONE of TWO
IT’S A POLITICAL YEAR – THE FAR LEFTS’S COMMUNICATION SKILLS SHINE AGAIN I have always been impressed by the Far Left’s (aka the Democrat Party)…
DEMOCRATS’ FAR LEFT FISCAL AND MONETARY CACOPHONY
The ongoing fiscal and monetary waltz featuring the Biden Administration’s over the top agenda driven spending (endorsed by the misguided followers of New Monetary policy)…
TRILLIONS OF DEFICIT SPENDING MINUS BILLIONS OF QUANTATIVE TIGHTENING EQUALS MORE INFLATION
I find it very interesting that the media gurus, who are reacting to the sharp reversal in the rate of inflation as evidenced in the…
POLITICAL ECONOMY IS A BENIGN ACADEMIC DISCIPLINE
THE INTERACTION OF POLITICS AND THE ECONOMY IS NOT. LEAVE THE FREE MARKET ALONE! After days of struggling with how to address this seemingly simple…
Addendum to: Economy is Going Where? – the Stock Market is Doing What?
It is the middle of July 2023 – and - the economic and stock market gurus and pundits that pontificate daily over various forms of…
The Economy is Going Where? – and – The Stock Market is Doing What?
Modern Monetary Theory – Weak on Theory - Wrong for the Free Market In the March 19th paper, Inflation Confusion Plus Recession Confusion Equals Stock…
INFLATION CONFUSION PLUS RECESSION CONFUSION EQUALS STOCK MARKET CONFUSION
In the last paper I posted in georgeeconomics.com, “Stubborn Inflation – Why…”, I discussed the reality of inflation and some of the major factors that…
STUBBORN INFLATION – WHY
HARD LANDING – SOFT LANDING – SLOW LANDING First published Wednesday 02/22/2023 The development of an accurate, unbiased, totally inclusive analysis of all the factors…
DOUBLE DIP RECESSION – A VIEW FROM THE MIDDLE
As I spelled out in a previous paper “Recession, Definition, Redefinition”, I refuse to blindly accept the gurus’ at the National Bureau of Economic Research…
Classical Economic Theory, Monetarists, Keynesians and Politicians
Why We Are Where We Are Today (Q4 2022) Classical economic theory was an offspring of the industrial revolution as the world moved from monarchies…
PAPERS FROM THE PAST – ELECTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES
THE BATTLE BETWEEN SOCIALISM AND THE FREE MARKET Recently I found buried on a company server a number of papers that I wrote during the…
THE INFLATION REDUCTION ACT – BIG TAX AND SPEND LEGISLATION
Two acts passed by the Democrat controlled Congress, the “Chips Act” (late July 2022) and the “Inflation Reduction Act”, (early August 2022) are of concern…
HARDCORE KEYNESIAN WIZARDRY
Hard core Keynesians may be vocally supportive of free market principles, but their blind adherence to analytical biases that artificially embellish the effectiveness of severely…
WHERE IS THE LOGIC? WHERE IS THE SCIENCE? – WHERE IS THE ECONOMICS?
HARD CORE KEYNESIANS DOWNPLAY BASIC ECONOMIC THEORY Introduction – Where Is The Logic? We know what the major problem is relating to the domestic and…
THE AMERICAN LEFT REALLY IS THAT STUPID!
THE COST OF IRRATIONAL POORLY PLANNED GREEN AGENDA UKRAINE WAR HIGHLIGHTS WEAKNESS AS WELL AS STUPIDITY The jury is still out as to whether the…
THE AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN LEFT NEVER LEARNS – Updated Summary
Ukraine’s heroic effort to thwart Russia’s invasion of their country has surprised both Russia and the rest of the world. The West owes Ukraine massively…
THE AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN LEFT NEVER LEARNS
The battle cry and sacred cow of the American and European left is the climate warming, climate cooling, climate change hysteria that has become a…
Can Biden And The Democrats Really Be That Stupid?
One would think that inflation being at a 40 year high would give the Biden Administration a major hint that they should reassess their MONEY…
Macroeconomics – MONEY – SPENDING – INFLATION
A Simple Cursory View Of Why We Are Where We Are. Keynesian Fiscal Policies Misused and Classical Economic Sanity. Supply and Demand, Monetary and Fiscal…
THE “GOOD MORNING AMERICA/TODAY SHOW EFFECT”–STYLE, SUBSTANCE AND OMISSION – with updates
Original Version (May 2020) (Please read through to the end to see updates on this original) All of the network morning shows and the network…
Biden’s Inflation and Spending Spree Hurts Low Income Folks the Most Bottom Out and Middle Down Revisited – More Socialist Economic Stupidity
n an earlier paper that exposed the absurd economic nonsense of the Biden Administration’s “Bottom up Middle Out” deception, the negative impact of virtually all…
Would The Founding Fathers Have Considered Themselves Liberals or Progressives?
The short answer based on the classical definitions of liberal and progressive is yes. The long answer based on the modern versions of the two…