Tag Archives: john maynard keynes
Something’s Gone Horribly Awry
The S&P 500 has fallen 7.37 percent so far this year. What to make of it… Naturally, some people find falling stock prices to be unpleasant. Others find them distressing. Another way to look at falling stock prices, however, is … Continue reading
Slip Back Economics
What’s this? Has the U.S. consumer, the primary engine of economic growth, become ambivalent? This is what the latest data says… According to the Thomas Reuters/University of Michigan’s early July index reading, consumer sentiment is 81.3. This is below the … Continue reading
The Trifecta of Depravity
You don’t have to look very far these days to see economic disparity, divergence, and contrary counterparts. The rich have never had it so good. A rising stock market, rising home values, and record corporate profits have the top 10 … Continue reading
The Successor to Keynes
The Successor to Keynes By Jeff Thomas, International Man Europe is abuzz with Capital in the Twenty-First Century by French economist Thomas Piketty, released in Europe in March of this year and now a best-seller. It has since crossed the Atlantic and … Continue reading
