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Category: <span>Economics</span>

Category: Economics

Mapping Wealth in America

Mapping Wealth in America

By Chris Ladd August 22, 2021 August 22, 2021

Chris Rock summarized the difference between income and wealth in the context of the pro sports: “Shaq is rich. The white man who signs his check… is wealthy.”

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What the Oil Price Collapse Means

What the Oil Price Collapse Means

By Chris Ladd April 22, 2020 April 22, 2020

When a poorly built levy breaks, everyone blames the flood.

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Trump’s Economy, by the Numbers

Trump’s Economy, by the Numbers

By Chris Ladd November 25, 2019 November 26, 2019

Just in time for Thanksgiving, here’s a broad review of economic performance under Trump, with comparisons to the Obama years.

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Deficits Don’t Matter, Until They Do

Deficits Don’t Matter, Until They Do

By Chris Ladd April 1, 2019 April 1, 2019

Government borrowing is good until it isn’t. It is a valuable, wise investment in our future, until it isn’t. So far we’ve piled up our peacetime national debt to wartime levels with few visible consequences. We’ve begun to foolishly imagine that no consequences will come. Rest assured, deficits don’t matter until one day they do.

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Socialism and Capitalism Are Both Irrelevant

Socialism and Capitalism Are Both Irrelevant

By Chris Ladd March 15, 2019 March 15, 2019

Today’s greatest defenders of “capitalism” are icons of inherited mediocrity whose wealth would be swept away by ten minutes of exposure to a free market.

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Trump Surrenders In Trade War

Trump Surrenders In Trade War

By Chris Ladd December 3, 2018 December 3, 2018

The Great China Trade War will play out just like the North Korea nuclear negotiations and the re-naming of NAFTA, just another trademark Trump fraud, paid for by his supporters.

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Corporate Class Consciousness

Corporate Class Consciousness

By Chris Ladd October 23, 2018 October 25, 2018

Now that the government at the center of the “Free World” has been bought off by a corrupt global kleptocrats, who is standing up for liberal democratic values? Corporations, of course. Get used to it, because this is the strange new shape of liberal democracy.

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Harley-Davidson May Not Be Telling the Whole Story

By Chris Ladd June 26, 2018 June 26, 2018

Their announcement highlighted the pointlessness of Trump’s tariffs, but Harley may not be telling the whole story.

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Where Are The Robots?

By Chris Ladd May 7, 2018 May 7, 2018

We are trapped in a push-pull between low unemployment with low pay and higher wages with disappearing jobs. That dynamic will remain as long we retain our cultural and economic dependence on mass employment.

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Democrats Love a Jobs Guarantee. That Figures

By Chris Ladd April 26, 2018 April 26, 2018

Here’s how this program would actually work, once it’s been ground into political sausage.

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