Thursday , May 2 2024
Home / Videopage 50

Blog Archives

Why Politicians and Bureaucrats Choose Politics over Sound Economics

We are taught from a very young age; “Government works for you”, or “the Government is the embodiment of the populous.” We accept these slogans blindly and carry on day to day. However, reality does not match up with these catch phrases. This is painfully clear when looking at the incentives that face these officeholders. After examining just a few, it’s clear we ought to adopt slogans that align with reality like, “the Government works for themselves.”The Big...

Read More »

The Non-Austrian Theory of the Nonbusiness Cycle

The Prophets of Doomby Neema ParviniImprint Academic, 2023; 227 pp.It was to be expected that Neema Parvini would give us an excellent book, and he has not disappointed us. Parvini is an outstanding Shakespeare critic and has written an important book on property rights, The Defenders of Liberty. In The Prophets of Doom, he discusses with marvelous concision a number of thinkers who have rejected the notion of universal historical progress, advocating instead a...

Read More »

Where We Stand

I am on vacation, and then on a business trip that will interrupt the commentary until the weekly note on April 30. The May monthly analysis will be published the following week after the FOMC meeting and April employment report. I wanted to weigh in on a few key market issues before leaving. New Divergence: The continued robust US jobs growth (276k average in Q1 24 and 251k average in 2023) and above-trend growth allow the Federal Reserve to remain focused on...

Read More »

Darauf sollten Bond-Investoren achten

Im Verlauf des letzten Jahres bewegte sich die Inflation weitgehend auf das 2 Prozent-Ziel der US-Notenbank zu, doch die Inflationsdaten vom Januar und Februar deuten möglicherweise darauf hin, dass die Fortschritte ins Stocken geraten sind. Darauf sollten Anleiheinvestoren laut den Experten von M&G jetzt achten.

Read More »