Inflation and deflation are often thought of as macroeconomic trends that impact broadly on national economies. Not always so. Although historians are prone to define periods broadly as inflationary or deflationary, they most often are doing so by measuring only labor and retail price movements....
Coronanomics 201 America’s wealth is eroding. Its economic pie is shrinking …, and slices soon will be getting smaller. The focus of Coronanomics 201 is on the size of America’s metaphorical wealth/wealth-creating pie …, and on how its size has been affected by the novel Coronavirus. America’s...
Americans have a virtually unfettered right to say whatever they please. Although governments in other countries habitually limit free speech in order to filter their citizens’ thinking and actions, that’s not the American Way. Freedom of speech is incorporated by the Founders in the First...
Today’s TLR is not about music. It’s not about “That Bass” … or “The Treble” (thank you Meghan Trainor). Today’s TLR is about how to target voters in a Presidential campaign – it’s about That Base. In the 2020 Presidential election, President Trump has been targeting...
Today’s TLR is about Zombies, real economic Zombies. Individuals, companies, and governments that are the walking undead – suffocated by mountains of debt, doomed to eventual economic oblivion. Many are unable to currently pay even the relatively modest interest they owe …, individuals without adequate...