Politics
Bob looks at the misconceptions and misuses of GDP accounting, explaining why this widely accepted metric often paints a misleading picture of economic health.
Connect with us
Hi, what are you looking for?
Metaverse Capitalists
- Stocks
Here’s Why The Bottom Is Dropping Out of the Dow Jones
Week Ahead: NIFTY Steps Into Next Week With These Two Negative Technical Developments
Market Pullbacks Provide Opportunities to Build your WatchList – Here’s How
S&P 500 Breakdown Alert! Downside Targets Explained
Stock Market Panic: Why Strong Jobs and Inflation Signal Trouble Ahead
- Business
Rachel Reeves’ China visit restores crucial links with world’s second-largest economy
Rachel Reeves weighs a ‘hotel tax’ as treasury battles to fill funding gap
New tax checks on side hustles like eBay and Vinted risk confusion over different reporting periods
Chancellor heads to China in search of growth amid surging borrowing costs
Unlocking Paradise: Why Investing in Apartments in Bali in 2024 Will Transform Your Travel Experience
- Investing
Politics
Americans and Cubans have been deprived of trade and travel. Who benefits?
Politics
Politicians’ lack of concern stems from the fact that taxpayers, families, and businesses will bear the brunt of the next crisis.
Politics
Passed in the immediate aftermath of the American Civil War, the Fourteenth Amendment was intended to further centralize governance away from the old decentralized...
Politics
American political and economic elites insist that they should have authority over everyone else. As people rebel, the elites are only doubling down on...
Politics
When an economy suffers a recession, some factors of production, such as labor, become unemployed. Keynesians believe that expanding credit and fiat money will...
Politics
People aren’t messing with their 401(k)s enough, according to the The Wall Street Journal. It used to be “Set it and forget it.” Now,...
Politics
In this week’s episode, Mark compares two definitions of inflation and what this means for policy-makers and the productive population in 2024. The mainstream view...
Politics
Proponents of modern monetary theory (MMT) are back in action after a quiet spell during the embarrassing (for them) record price inflation of 2021–23....
Politics
Spreading civilization and human rights has long been used as an excuse for state-building through colonialism and imperialism. This idea dates back at least to...
Politics
In his important book The Failure of American Conservatism (2023), the political theorist and philosopher Claes G. Ryn offers some criticisms of libertarianism and...
Politics
Bob goes solo to discuss a recent Twitter controversy, in which opponents of a proposed tax argued that unrealized capital gains couldn’t possibly be...
Politics
Many economists claim that economic growth is driven by increases in the total demand for goods and services, additionally claiming that overall output increases...
Politics
Even though many deny it, the “Great Reset” exists, referring to a set of ideas that range from “stakeholder capitalism” to “wokeness” and “fourth...
