Category Archives: Economy

Coming Down from Cloud Cuckoo Land

In between the birth and death of capital there’s a wide-ranging succession. The lifecycle of capital generally follows that it is imagined, produced, consumed, and destroyed. How exactly this all takes place involves varying and infinite undulations. Continue reading

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On the Importance of Deflation and Depressions

Deflation, in essence, means a general reduction of prices. As opposed to inflation, deflation allows consumers to buy more goods or services tomorrow with the same money they have today. Savvy consumers will then delay purchases in anticipation they can buy more for less in the future. Continue reading

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Circa: Now!

America’s economic landscape is becoming littered with one steaming pile after another. The primary offenders include consumer price inflation, interest rates, gross domestic product, and unemployment. Here we’ll take a sniff of the unpleasant odor that’s wafting around us. Continue reading

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What Brookfield’s Default Has to Do with You

This trip down memory lane was wandered with intent and purpose. Because this week Bloomberg reported that Brookfield Corporation, one of the largest commercial real estate companies in the world, has defaulted on $161.4 million of office building mortgages. Continue reading

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