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Tag Archives: central planning
Your Figuring Central Planners At Work
The central planners never hit their inflation targets. But, in spraying the economy with birdshot, they cause massive disruption. This aside, assuming the central planners at the Fed could target price inflation, what rate of inflation would they precisely pinpoint? Continue reading
Posted in Economy, MN Gordon
Tagged central planning, federal reserve, inflation targeting, jerome powell, robert kaplan
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The Hollow Promise of a Statist Economy
Not a day goes by that doesn’t supply a new specimen of inane disclarity. Muddy ideas are dredged up from tainted minds like lumps of odorous pond muck. We do our part to clean up the mess, whether we want to or not. Continue reading
Posted in Economy, MN Gordon
Tagged central planning, federal reserve, government action, socialism, statist
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Getting to a Special State of Ugly
The world, circa 2019, is a fabricated reality. Debt, piled upon debt, piled upon debt, ad infinitum, has erected a financial order that’s at perilous odds with the underlying economy. Central bankers attempt to manipulate fake money and fake foreign exchange rates to keep the debt pile from cascading down. Continue reading
Posted in Inflation, MN Gordon
Tagged business cycle, central planning, currency manipulator, federal reserve, people's bank of china
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Tending Towards Maximum Perversity
According to Finagle’s corollary to Murphy’s law, “Anything that can go wrong, will—at the worst possible moment.” Taken a degree further, per O’Toole’s corollary of Finagle’s law, and the second law of thermodynamics, “The perversity of the Universe tends towards a maximum.” Continue reading
Posted in Government Debt, MN Gordon
Tagged bailouts, central planning, collapse, federal reserve, general motors
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