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By Thinking Out Aloud on Aug 12, 2017 in: economics, money, science
This is based on a comment I made here.If turning points in asset prices could be reliably predicted, they wouldn't happen (since no none would buy at the "about to be seriously undercut" price).The "bubble" folk don't seem to understand that calling...
By Mark Wadsworth on Aug 11, 2017 in: Economics
Lola, in a comment on Bayard's post:"The Skye Bridge both confirm and confounds my contention that infrastructure spending comes after economic growth."It does both, it's chicken and egg. From the point of view of an individual or a business, everyth...
By RedState on Aug 7, 2017 in: Budget, Economics, Economy, Google, Government, Internet, Law, News, Policy, Politics, Science
Anyone both remotely in touch with Reality and honest – knows and acknowledges that the vast majority of our nation’s colleges and universities are ultra-Leftist academic swamps. In dire need of just the sort of draining Washington, D.C. so r...
By North Coast Voices on Aug 4, 2017 in: economics, environment
“These days, it's not just leftie troublemakers who doubt that benefits going direct to big business will trickle down to the rest of us, it's every punter in the street.” [Economics Editor at The Sydney Morning Herald, Ross Gittins, 24 Jul...
By Mark Wadsworth on Aug 3, 2017 in: Economics
The debate raged somewhat inconclusively in the comments to yesterday's post.Short answer is, nobody really knows - is it the exporter in the other country (who has to accept lower net selling prices) or is it the consumer in the importing country (w...
By Boing Boing on Aug 1, 2017 in: Business, economics, london, uk
In May 2014, 259 Islington homes changed hands; in May 2016, 139 houses were sold in the Borough: this May, it was 89. (more…)...
The chart above, from the Economic Policy Institute, shows the multiple of corporate CEO salaries over worker salaries. Note that as late as 1978, the average CEO salary was only 30 times as large as the average worker salary in private industry. But...