Category Archives: Joseph Stiglitz
Expect Desperate, Insane Behavior From Government In 2018 – Part 2
Authored by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog, The financial crisis of 2008/09 was the most significant event to happen in my lifetime. That event, coupled with the deeply unethical and corrupt response to it, led to a direct delegitimization of governments and institutions worldwide. It’s precisely this self-inflicted destruction of credibility which opened up […]
How Socialism Ruined Venezuela
Authored by Rafael Acevedo & Luis B. Cirocco via The Mises Institute, In order to understand the disaster that is unfolding in Venezuela, we need to journey through the most recent century of our history and look at how our institutions have changed over time. What we will find is that Venezuela once enjoyed relatively […]
Actions Have Consequences! Ask Venezuela
Authored by Bill Bonner via InternationalMan.com, Let’s turn to an economy getting doomier by the day: Venezuela. Actions have consequences. In public policy, it is impossible to say what the consequences will be. There are too many delusions and too much smoke. Take a policy said to eradicate city rats. Its real purpose is to […]
Weekend Reading: Anticipation
Submitted by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Over the past couple of weeks, the market has continued to remain overbought, extended and exuberant on “hopes” that Trump’s policies will be the ointment to cure the economy’s ills. As noted yesterday, exuberance has exploded in everything from consumer to investor to business optimism. The explosion of optimism […]
Weekend Reading: Stuck In The Middle – Again
Submitted by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, I have written previously about being stuck in a trading range. “Over the past couple of months, we have continued to drift from one economic report, or Central Bank meeting, to the next. Each report and meeting have continued to leave market participants confused as to what is going […]