How Big Tech is buying its way out of trouble – UnHerd
How Big Tech is buying its way out of trouble – UnHerd
— Read on unherd.com/2018/10/big-tech-buying-way-trouble/
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Economics
10 & 30-Year Yields Surge, Yield Curve “Steepens,” Stocks Drop, as Fed Talks Up Rate Hikes in 2019 | Wolf Street
10 & 30-Year Yields Surge, Yield Curve “Steepens,” Stocks Drop, as Fed Talks Up Rate Hikes in 2019 | Wolf Street
— Read on wolfstreet.com/2018/10/07/stocks-drop-as-10-year-yield-surges-yield-curve-steepens-and-fed-talks-up-rate-hikes/
Trump Signs an Enormous New Military Spending Bill | Mises Wire
In August, Donald Trump signed into law a massive new military budget for fiscal year 2019, which began on Monday:
— Read on mises.org/wire/trump-signs-enormous-new-military-spending-bill
Money Supply Growth Moves Sideways as Growth Rate Swings Back to 5-Month High | Mises Wire
Money supply growth rose in August, rising to the highest rate recorded since March of this year. Overall, money-supply growth remains well below the growth rates experienced from 2009 to 2016, and has fluctuated very little since March.
— Read on mises.org/wire/money-supply-growth-moves-sideways-growth-rate-swings-back-5-month-high
The Bank of International Settlement’s Claudio Borio, Who Warned About the Crisis, Says the World Economy Is About to Get Very Sick | naked capitalism
BIS chief economist Claudio Borio warns that central bankers have overdone the liquidity party, and investors are not being paid enough to take risk.
— Read on www.nakedcapitalism.com/2018/09/bank-international-settlements-claudio-borio-warned-crisis-says-world-economy-get-sick.html
Will the Chinese economy go the way of the USSR’s? – UnHerd
Will the Chinese economy go the way of the USSR’s? – UnHerd
— Read on unherd.com/2018/09/will-chinese-economy-go-way-ussrs/
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We Still Haven’t Learned the Right Lessons from the 2008 Crash | Mises Wire
Financial media-administered history lessons — whether by commentaries or interviews — on the Great Crash that occurred 10 years ago are frightening. The would-be history teachers are in total denial (or ignorance) of the key fact that 2008 was a monetary-made disaster.
— Read on mises.org/wire/we-still-havent-learned-right-lessons-2008-crash
What Caused the Crash of 2008 Is Now Shaping Our Post-modern 1930s – Rigged Game
Ten years on, the crisis unleashed in Wall Street in 2008 is still with us
— Read on riggedgame.blog/2018/09/11/what-caused-the-crash-of-2008-is-now-shaping-our-post-modern-1930s/
Turkey, Argentina, Other Emerging Markets Hit BBVA | Wolf Street
Turkey, Argentina, Other Emerging Markets Hit BBVA | Wolf Street
— Read on wolfstreet.com/2018/09/11/the-bank-most-exposed-to-turkey-argentina-other-emerging-markets-tries-to-calm-investor-fears/
Why the “Economy Is an Engine” Metaphor is So Wrong | Mises Wire
Is the economy “overheating,” or is it “humming” along smoothly? Should the Federal Reserve “prime the pump” to spur investment, or “pump the brakes?” Such questions of course use an engine metaphor to describe the economy. But why?
— Read on mises.org/wire/why-economy-engine-metaphor-so-wrong
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