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  • Birthrates best economic indicator?

    The documentary Demographic Winter features the Nobel Prize-winning Chicago economist Gary Becker , inter alii . It shows how economists and demographers are predicting a peak in world population by circa 2050. Gary Becker et al. argue that birthrates are the best economic indicator. Is this true? What...
    Posted to Economics Questions (Forum) by Alan Aversa on Sun, Dec 25 2011
  • On the nature of GDP growth

    I was having a conversation with a friend of mine about how, well, the fed has done more harm than good. I had cited a few examples, but he countered with GDP growth and how it has grown so much. I'm not too well read in Austrian economics just yet (Just ordered Human Action a week ago, and other...
    Posted to Economics Questions (Forum) by joslin01 on Tue, Mar 16 2010
  • Should the US Government Create New Temporary Jobs with Borrowed money?

    I think that President Obama plans to borrow more US dollars back from the Foreigners that earned the US dollars manufacturing US consumable products and then provide temporary jobs for unemployed US citizens to construct "Pork Barrel" projects, or rake leaves, or dig a hole today and then...
    Posted to Economics Questions (Forum) by Gerald Spencer on Mon, Feb 15 2010
  • Growth? and what does real wealth look and feel like?

    I'm sold on this whole idea of the fed supply printing money erodes its value and understand the principal + Interest = Boom / Bust cycle. How do you grow an economy without it ? surely it would have taken us another 100 yrs just to get where we are today. I understand that the growth we have experienced...
    Posted to Economics Questions (Forum) by MVD on Tue, Apr 14 2009
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