Economics

FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS IN ECONOMICS

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How technological development causes economic development

How international trade works-balance of trade-equality of exports and imports

The economics of real estate; density determines fundamental real estate values

What is money and what are its uses? From gold to paper money to electronic money

An open-source, digital currency to facilitate commercial transactions worldwide

Errors in inflation measurements-no such thing as inflation

On allowing mergers of big companies who are competitors-they should never be approved!

On putting your own people as suppliers, your distributors and customers, etc. to lower costs

Free trade, anti-dumping duties and trade tariffs - government policy should be pro consumer, pro abundance, and not pro producer

Central banks and jobs creation (unemployment): central banks don't matter much

The myth of overpopulation and world resources running out

Consumption doesnt help economy, savings do!

Business-margins vs. volume; why low taxes are good for a government, demand functions

Making sense of economics data-M2 money supply

Limits of private enterprise and free markets, and role of government-disaster of private healthcare

Comments on Mark Perry's CPI "chart of the century"

ADDITIONAL ARTICLES IN ECONOMICS

Our obsessions with the present-that it's something special

On income inequality and income gaps

On recessions-confusing nominal value with real value of money

Economic conditions comparison to the Great Depression are strange

Valuing stocks using the PEG (Price to Earnings Growth rate) ratio is incorrect