Stimuli, Deflation, and The Great Recession
Posted in Audio, Media on 15 October 2010
Stats: 546 views and No Comments FEE president Lawrence Reed was a guest of the Just Facts Radio Show, the newly launched initiative of JustFacts.com. The interview focuses on economic fallacies about federal spending, and offers historic overview of the real causes of The Great Depression, some of which can be observed today. Total: 65 ...
Posted in Audio, Media on 15 October 2010
Stats: 546 views and No Comments FEE president Lawrence Reed was a guest of the Just Facts Radio Show, the newly launched initiative of JustFacts.com. The interview focuses on economic fallacies about federal spending, and offers historic overview of the real causes of The Great Depression, some of which can be observed today. Total: 65 ...
Have Government Deficits “Saved the World”?
Posted in Not So Fast! on 22 July 2009
Stats: 97 views and 7 Comments [caption id="attachment_7910" align="alignright" width="150" caption="Paul Krugman's Chart Explaining How Deficits "Saved the World""][/caption] Last week, I wrote about the crudeness of so-called Keynesian economic theory in which one assumes that all assets and capital “investment” are “homogeneous” in character, which means that their only contribution to the economy is from the ...
Posted in Not So Fast! on 22 July 2009
Stats: 97 views and 7 Comments [caption id="attachment_7910" align="alignright" width="150" caption="Paul Krugman's Chart Explaining How Deficits "Saved the World""][/caption] Last week, I wrote about the crudeness of so-called Keynesian economic theory in which one assumes that all assets and capital “investment” are “homogeneous” in character, which means that their only contribution to the economy is from the ...
Federal Spending Up 25% Before Bailouts
Posted in In brief on 16 December 2008
Stats: 3 views and No Comments "The government's spending commitments exploded by 25 percent in 2008, putting taxpayers more than $1 trillion in the hole even before the astronomical costs of the economic bailout were taken into account, according to an annual report released Monday by the White House." (Tuesday, Washington Times) So much for restraint. FEE Timely ...
Posted in In brief on 16 December 2008
Stats: 3 views and No Comments "The government's spending commitments exploded by 25 percent in 2008, putting taxpayers more than $1 trillion in the hole even before the astronomical costs of the economic bailout were taken into account, according to an annual report released Monday by the White House." (Tuesday, Washington Times) So much for restraint. FEE Timely ...
