Two stories are told. One is that government must help people. The other is that government must get out of the way.
Both stories are told by the wealthy.
"The commonwealth was not yet lost in Tiberius's days, but it was already doomed and Rome knew it. The fundamental trouble could not be cured. In Italy, labor could not support life..." - Vladimir Simkhovitch, "Rome's Fall Reconsidered"
Tuesday, February 13, 2018
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I'm not a fan of "diagrams" in economics, but sometimes... This is a screen capture of slide 36 from a SlideShare presentatio...
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Mark Thoma links to the Kansas City Fed's Nominal Wage Rigidities and the Future Path of Wage Growth by José Mustre-del-Río and Emily ...
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JW Mason : "... in retrospect it is clear that we should have been talking about big new public spending programs to boost demand....
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It is surely true that the price level cannot rise without a corresponding increase in the quantity of money or velocity or use of credit. ...
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Went to Harbor Freight the other day. When I left, there was so much traffic I had to fight my way out of the parking lot -- at one p.m. on ...
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"The trouble with being the friend of the poor is that you need them to be poor always so you can be their well-paid friend forever." -- Sackerson
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