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Personal Saving Makes More than 40% of Property Income . . . Invisible. Think Total Return
Personal income, so Personal saving, ignore a huge part of Total Return — the income-from-assets measure used by every modern portfolio investor. Guess what’s missing? Personal Saving Makes More than 40% of Property Income . . . Invisible. Think Total Return, Wealth Economics, Steve Roth Matthew Klein and Joey Politano have been singularly responsible in their discussions of “excess saving” in the covid era — not least by always putting that...
Read More »The Fascinating Paradox of Australian Accents
The Fascinating Paradox of Australian Accents
Read More »“Inflation”
This aggregate general price increase isn’t going to be reversed by November by keeping the current risk free rate static… so the Biden people are stuck with this politically … and the inequity of economic outcomes being caused by this high risk free policy rate they continue to impose…Democrats sacrificing their political prospects in a deranged defense of art degree monetarism…??US Inflation Rate: AggregatedAverage American purchasing power eroded by 22.37% Since Jan 2020....
Read More »Another Example of Harrod-Neutral Technical Progress And The Choice Of Technique
Figure 1: Variation in the Maximum Wage and the Cost-Minimizing Technique with Time This post presents an example in which some coefficients of production vary from those in example. Reswitching, capital reversing, and the reverse substitution of labor do not arise in this example. Table 1 shows the coefficients of production for this example. The labor coefficients vary identically with the the labor coefficients in the previous example. a2,1(a), a3,1(a), a2,1(b), a3,1(b), a1,2(c),...
Read More »It’s Cheaper to Manufacture Plastic Products in Ohio than in China
Before you go on a bender claiming it is not true. It is true. Your costs of inventory and transportation are high. Three weeks on the ocean plus one week on the dock on each side of the ocean. Transportation costs and time to the buyer. Container costs this last go around were as high as $10,000. Typically they were at $4,000 or less. Are you going to have 1 – 2 weeks of safety stock or are you going to cover the ocean in-transit time. What if?...
Read More »The poverty of fictional storytelling in statistics and econometrics
The poverty of fictional storytelling in statistics and econometrics The most expedient population and data generation model to adopt is one in which the population is regarded as a realization of an infinite super population. This setup is the standard perspective in mathematical statistics, in which random variables are assumed to exist with fixed moments for an uncountable and unspecified universe of events … This perspective is tantamount to assuming a...
Read More »Scenes from the leading sectors of the December jobs report: sectors of weakness and strength
Scenes from the leading sectors of the December jobs report: sectors of weakness and strength – by New Deal democrat For nearly two decades, my focus on economic reporting online has been finding and examining leading indicators; those datapoints that tell us where the economy in general, and in particular jobs and income for ordinary Americans, are heading in the near future. Usually that has meant batting away DOOOOMers; those people who...
Read More »What does it take to move towards the goals of a healthy economy?
from Neva Goodwin and RWER issue 106 A healthy economy is one that operates so as to achieve its goals, with relatively little of the overall economic activity working against them. There are obviously a great many things that can be said about what it takes to achieve this; here I will only address one set of requirements. This refers to the fourth essential economic activity mentioned above: maintaining the resources required for the other activities of production, distribution, and...
Read More »The Gift of Sanctions
Jamie Galbraith presented, at the EPS session at the ASSA Meetings in San Antonio, the paper published by INET. As he said there: "Despite the shock and the costs, the sanctions imposed on the Russian economy were in the nature of a gift." A type of invisible hand effect, by which the unintended effect of the policy that should supposedly benefit US allies (Ukraine) has the unintended effect of helping its alleged enemies (Russia).From the abstract:This essay analyzes a few prominent Western...
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