Showing posts with label mercantilism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mercantilism. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Christopher Casey: GDP is Designed to Advance the Keynesian Interventionist Agenda

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My third and last post on 'GDP week'. At the Mises Institute , Christopher Casey writes that GDP (statistical G-R-O-W-T-H) has ...
Saturday, February 08, 2014

The Myth of Low Currency Equals Strong Exports: Brazil Edition

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Low currency equals cheap exports. That’s the mainstream’s resonant “incantation” as if such a claim represents an a priori irrefutable tru...
Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Quote of the Day: Trade is Not a Scoreboard

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We need to do better a job explaining how trade does not lend itself to sports metaphors. Exports are not our “points.” Imports are not “t...
Thursday, July 18, 2013

Mayhem in the US Treasury Markets, No Problem, China to the Rescue!

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When you're down and troubled and you need a helping hand and nothing, whoa, nothing is going right. Close your eyes and think...
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Friday, February 22, 2013

Has the Decline of the US Steel Industry been about Wages?

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The following has not been meant to be a blog post, but a reply to a dear "mercantilist" friend who stubbornly insists that the U...
Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Does Unemployment Cause Deflation?

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I was apprised by a de ar friend t hat in a part of the US, call center jobs have been migrating to the Philippines. Such phenomenon he see...
Tuesday, February 19, 2013

The Political Pretense called Currency War

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A geneticist recently claimed that human intelligence has been on a gradual decline due to the extensive use of fluorides in the water sup...