That leads people to believe that the feds have pulled off a save…they’ve now got the economy well along on the road to recovery…the recovery is getting stronger as time goes by…
November 12th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 5 comments | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "Keynesian"
What’s Wrong With the Stimulus Packages
The Australian Senate has been running an inquiry into the stimulus package for which I provided a written submission and afterwards spoke to the Senate Economic References Committee which has been conducting this inquiry.
October 20th, 2009 | Dr. Steven Kates | 11 comments | Continued
Dr. Michael Hudson On Landlords and Bankers in Charge of the Economy Again
Regrettably, your editor was back at the doctor’s office early this morning being diagnosed with tonsillitis after a lousy night. We were especially disappointed because scheduled for today was a noon lunch with Dr. Michael Hudson. His tour of the country is being sponsored by Prosper Australia and tonight at the Melbourne Town Hall at 6:30 Dr. Hudson and Dr. Steve Keen will be “lifting the lid on the GFC.”
October 14th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 17 comments | Continued
Why I Would Have Raised the Interest Rates
Am I privy to the discussions of the RBA Board? No again. But I do know this. I do know why I would have raised rates, and would keep on raising them until the Government gets the message.
October 9th, 2009 | Dr. Steven Kates | 16 comments | Continued
The Dead Weight Cost of the Stimulus
On 21 September I provided testimony to the Senate Economics References Committee on the damage done by the government’s “stimulus” package. The submission was broken into five separate sections.
October 2nd, 2009 | Dr. Steven Kates | 35 comments | Continued
Gold Price Should Continue Going Up as the Dollar Accelerates its Terminal Decline
But first, just a reminder about the gold conference in Canberra November 2nd through 5th in Canberra. You can read about it here. Space is limited, so if you’re keen to go, you’d better move fast. Your editor will be there too, for the first time, and is looking forward to a world-class line up of speakers on gold as money and gold investments.
October 2nd, 2009 | Dan Denning | 6 comments | Continued
Oil and Gold Prices Linked for Most of Recession Period
In recent weeks, both have been in a stage of recovery. The gold price has reached $982 an ounce, close to its peak when it touched $1,000 an ounce. Oil prices fell in the recession by about 70 per cent, and have now received about 50 per cent.
June 4th, 2009 | William Rees-Mogg | 0 comments | Continued
The Threat of Hyper-Depression
At this stage nothing is certain, but the country is currently headed straight into a period of very rapid price hikes and a very bad recession. It would not surprise me at all if the national unemployment rate and the annualized rate of consumer price inflation both broke through into double digits by the end of 2009.
March 26th, 2009 | The Daily Reckoning | 4 comments | Continued
Bear Market to Last at Least Five Years
The first is that the bear market on Wall Street is entirely likely to last for as long as five years. Of course, the recession in the economy could be shorter, though there is no guarantee of that. The second is that we may have to expect a relatively long period of high dividend yields and high price-earnings ratios.
November 14th, 2008 | William Rees-Mogg | 9 comments | Continued
Keynesians Believe Governments Have to Manage Economy in Macro-Economic Way
Nobel prize winning economist Paul Krugman is, of course, a Keynesian. All economists – or practically all – are now Keynesians. So are all government officials. “We’re all Keynesians now,” announced Richard Nixon in the ’70s…
October 21st, 2008 | Bill Bonner | 3 comments | Continued