By: mikehall2
Well, it looks like the mainstream, after a financial crash that need not have happened & very damaging policies since, all underpinned by similarly fundamentally flawed thinking, is beginning to...
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A “revolution in economic thinking?” Any thinking at all among economists would indeed be revolutionary. They could begin by eliminating their long-standing, self-imposed ban on thinking about the...
View ArticleBy: krimsonpage
Not going to happen. There are many good, caring, and honest economists out there. But what good are they? They don’t make the big decisions….their wealthy benefactors do. Look at the UK. Just this...
View ArticleBy: paintcan
Mr Karetsky – doesn’t “The radical idea of depriving banks of their money-creating function,” translate as depriving banks of the ability to make loans? @gmontante when you say no taxation and...
View ArticleBy: QuietThinker
The problem with working through the banks in recent years has been the lack of talent in the large banks. Rather than being bankers, most of the folks handling money in the large financial...
View ArticleBy: TocoToucan
Weren’t Abraham Lincoln and JFK both assasinated shortly after proposing systems whereby the government could effectively bypass banks and print money themselves? Surely it’ll never happen – the ultra...
View ArticleBy: reality-again
Printing money is useless any way you look at it. Decades from now, after the dust settles, the times ahead of us may be remembered for the following historic trends: 1. The collapse of the Western...
View ArticleBy: normanmacraeltd
If anyone here followed my father norman macrae’s writings in The Economist on how to prepare for the net generation being the most productive time for youth everywhere then there is a simple keynsian...
View ArticleBy: Sustento
Anatole, Talking of good and bad money, read this short article on Monetary Dialysis. This is pretty much the answer to the questions you are asking. http://sustento.org.nz/wp-content/upload...
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