Question Based on your political beliefs, would you never have implemented a quarantine and left it up to people to self-quarantine? If no, do you agree with all the government interventions that have been rolled out and/or are about to be rolled out in order to help individuals/businesses/industries affected by the quarantine? Please frame both … Continue reading COVID-19 Essay Question
Hysteria: $1.5 Trillion Injection From the Fed
On social media, people are up in arms with how the government is quick to take care of the filthy wealthy bankers and don't care at all about the working-class folk. "Oh, so the government can inject $1.5 Trillion in an instant to save the banks but can't provide free healthcare to the 99 percent … Continue reading Hysteria: $1.5 Trillion Injection From the Fed
The Tax Bill, Floodplains, and Time Inconstistencies
Edward Prescott and Finn Kydland won the Nobel Prize in 2004 for their contributions to dynamic macroeconomics: the time consistency of economic policy and the driving forces behind business cycles." In other words, how present-day government decisions don't account for future government decisions.
My Ideal Economic Design
A friend messaged me on Facebook asking, "If I could build my own economic system, what would it look like?" I responded quickly by letting him know I’d send my thoughts to him the next day. Well, two weeks have gone by and I have finally decided to take a stab at this quite daunting … Continue reading My Ideal Economic Design
Why Societies Prosper and Others Stay Poor or Stagnant
It is all too easy to confuse the evidence of prosperity with its cause. An educated population, access to capital and sound financial markets, a diverse and productive labor force, innovative businesses, and general material abundance are surely hallmarks of a prosperous society. Yet these features merely describe prosperity. They do not explain it. These … Continue reading Why Societies Prosper and Others Stay Poor or Stagnant