The poisonous pursuit of wealth and the good life: In 1964 the Beatles sang about love and money. Old guys like me certainly remember “Can’t Buy Me Love”. One verse of it goes like this: I’ll give you all I’ve got to giveIf you say you love me tooI may not have a lot...
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Why is gold skyrocketing? Follow the money printing!
Even those in the non-financial media have noticed the skyrocketing price of gold this year. Some partially identify, but don’t quite understand, some of the many (and more measurable) intermediary effects in the chain of causation such as a “weakened US dollar” and...
ABC economist/comedian promises something for nothing
“Aunty” gave Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) the 'comedy treatment' on July 22nd in episode 13 of The Weekly with Charlie Pickering. Well, more treatment than comedy. The ‘treatment’ was to try to showcase, as per standard practice for the ABC, how clever and correct...



