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david ricardo

Factories Or Money?

By |2017-01-06T17:17:01-05:00January 6th, 2017|Currencies, Economy, Federal Reserve/Monetary Policy, Markets|

There are a few parts of the payroll reports that do make sense without requiring alternative interpretation. Among these face value statistics is the estimate for manufacturing payrolls. The BLS figures that employment in the manufacturing sector peaked in July 2015 and has been declining ever so gently since then. Total job losses are just 61k over that year and [...]

The Effects Of Money On Trade

By |2016-09-27T12:04:05-04:00September 27th, 2016|Currencies, Economy, Federal Reserve/Monetary Policy, Markets|

There can be little doubt now outside of orthodox economics that the global economy is actually slowing, not accelerating as has been predicted. Economists themselves, however, continue to claim that things are getting better when the data strongly suggests otherwise. The latest depressing figures are from a pair of (orthodox) supranational organizations. First, the World Trade Organization (WTO) drastically reduced [...]

Who’s The Barbarian?

By |2016-08-02T15:24:56-04:00August 2nd, 2016|Currencies, Economy, Federal Reserve/Monetary Policy, Markets|

Very few people are against the concept of free trade, and those who are aren’t worth listening to. As a matter of economics (small “e”), free trade was established as a universal good that benefits all sides in one of the first scholarly debates that in the early 19th century helped turn political economics into a separate study meriting its [...]

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