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Bob looks at the misconceptions and misuses of GDP accounting, explaining why this widely accepted metric often paints a misleading picture of economic health.
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Bob looks at the misconceptions and misuses of GDP accounting, explaining why this widely accepted metric often paints a misleading picture of economic health.
Americans and Cubans have been deprived of trade and travel. Who benefits?
Since the end of the 19th Century, much of US history has been marred by meddling in the affairs of other nations. From William...
Politicians’ lack of concern stems from the fact that taxpayers, families, and businesses will bear the brunt of the next crisis.
The recent actions of the Federal Reserve are reminiscent of central bank activities in wartime. Original Article: “Has World War III Already Begun?”
Social democrats are so desperate to cast off limits on government that they’ll embrace anything that justifies their ambitions. So they invent theories of money that...
Even under chattel slavery, inequality was still pervasive. Carpenters, sugar boilers, blacksmiths, cabinetmakers, and rum distillers constituted an elite core of slaves. Original Article: “Even in...
Speculators are reviled in the media and by politicians and academics. Yet the speculators are the ones taking risks to ensure the rest of us...
Will we get a soft landing or a hard landing in the economy? Or, should we hope for a crash landing? Mark Thornton explains. See...
Jonathan Newman joins Bob to discuss the argument being put forth by Alan Blinder, James Galbraith, and other progressive economists, who claim that the...