Showing posts with label Political Economics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Political Economics. Show all posts
September 7, 2025

Occasional Xs: The foul spirit of political economics (CXLVII)

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  #Economics #FailedFakeScience “Ich habe ein Buch darüber geschrieben, was es für die (liberale) Demokratie bedeutet, wenn es immer wenige...
September 6, 2025

Occasional Xs: The foul spirit of political economics (CXLVI)

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#Economics #AllYouNeedToKnow #FailedFakeScience “I wish my other good friend @ProfSteveKeen was there, but we represented him well.” (Relea...
September 5, 2025

Occasional Xs: How it works (CCCXCIV)

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#Economics #AllYouNeedToKnow “The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed, between capital and labor; it...
September 2, 2025

Occasional Xs: The foul spirit of political economics (CXLIV)

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#Economics #AllYouNeedToKnow “We regret to inform you that economists are back, signing letters.” (zerohedge) If you need proof that economi...
August 30, 2025

Occasional Xs: The foul spirit of political economics (CXLII)

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#Economics #AllYouNeedToKnow “A bigger debt means that the next generation gets more money not less.” (Max Jerneck) Either Max Jerneck does ...
August 28, 2025

Occasional Xs: The futile attempt to recycle Austrianism (XLX)

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#Economics #AllYouNeedToKnow Javier Milei is a proponent of the Austrian School of Economics. Economics claims to be science but is not. Aus...
August 26, 2025

Occasional Xs: How it works (CCCXC)

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#Economics #AllYouNeedToKnow Trump: “The USA will continue to acquire equity stakes in large private companies similar to how it was with In...
August 24, 2025

Occasional Xs: The foul spirit of political economics (CXLI)

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#Economics #AllYouNeedToKnow “They [mainstream economists] actually are moralists more than scientists, but they pretend to be scientists, a...

Occasional Xs: The foul spirit of political economics (CXL)

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#Economics #AllYouNeedToKnow “In the end, the very rich, the talented/ambitious people and future-oriented firms will leave. The middle clas...
August 22, 2025

Occasional Xs: How it works (CCCLXXXVIII)

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#Economics #AllYouNeedToKnow “So much of this economic system now resembles Feudalism.” (David Graeber) David Graeber never had any clue abo...
August 20, 2025

Occasional Xs: How it works (CCCLXXXVII)

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  #Economics #AllYouNeedToKnow “President Trump and I are laser focused on paying down the debt. Tariff revenue could top $300B this year, ...
August 17, 2025

Occasional Xs: The foul spirit of political economics (CXXXIX)

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#Economics #AllYouNeedToKnow “We are reclaiming liberalism” (Students for Liberty) Ludwig von Mises never understood profit and by consequen...
August 13, 2025

Occasional X: Failed proof of Capitalism's superiority (VIII)

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#Economics #AllYouNeedToKnow “Capitalism made it possible to become wealthy by serving your fellow man.” (Michael Arouet) As an economist, M...
August 11, 2025

Occasional Tweets: How MMTers serve the Oligarchy (VIII)

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#MMT #BadScienceBadPolicyBadPeople “When we all say 'the Labour Party is dead' we should also remember that this is music to the ear...

Occasional X: Failed proof of Capitalism's superiority (VII)

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  #Economics #AllYouNeedToKnow “But all belie the conventional wisdom that no nation other than America has a booming entrepreneurial cultu...
August 10, 2025

Occasional Xs: How it works (CCCLXXXV)

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#Economics #AllYouNeedToKnow “The rich are getting richer … quite literally.” (Lord Bebo) No surprise for a competent economist. Like all fr...
August 7, 2025

Occasional Xs: Clueless economists / Oligarchy-Democracy (II)

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#Economics #AllYouNeedToKnow “To avoid the semantic issues: I think of democracy as a system of checks and balances that tries to reflect th...
August 6, 2025

Occasional Tweets: How MMTers serve the Oligarchy (VII)

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#MMT #BadScienceBadPolicyBadPeople “I suspect the Soros-type people of the world created the marketing brand 'MMT' from post-Keynesi...
August 4, 2025

Occasional Xs: The foul spirit of political economics (CXXXVIII)

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#Economics #AllYouNeedToKnow “The BLS data can not be politicized, period.” (Roger Altman) The whole of economics is politicized. That's...
August 2, 2025

Occasional Xs: How it works (CCCLXXXIII)

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#Economics #AllYouNeedToKnow “Firing the head of a key government agency because you don’t like the numbers they report, which come from sur...