The Saving Problem in America: Alternatives and Reforms
Savings are the foundation for a productive and advanced economy. Unfortunately, governments insist on policies that make it harder for ordinary people to save.
Savings are the foundation for a productive and advanced economy. Unfortunately, governments insist on policies that make it harder for ordinary people to save.
Negative interest rates lead to zombie firms, rampant consumerism, and growing obstacles to entrepreneurship.
Negative interest rates lead to zombie firms, rampant consumerism, and growing obstacles to entrepreneurship.
Hunter Hastings joins Jeff Deist with great insights into the social benefits of profit vs. interest, entrepreneurial risk, progressing and retrogressing economies, and the bunkum known as the "Paradox of Saving." They focus on Chapter 8 of Rothbard's Man, Economy, and State.
Kristoffer Hansen joins the show to discuss everything about interest rates, as detailed by Rothbard in Chapter 6 of Man, Economy, and State.
AOC and Paul Krugman are wrong: we can't just pay people money to stay home and expect "stuff" to materialize around us. Dr. Shawn Ritenour shows how Man, Economy, and State explains why.
The forces of anticapitalism have long latched on to whatever best suits them for pushing their agenda. Whatever the latest injustice may be—from a polluted environment to poverty to racism—the solution is always the end of capitalism.
As Japan has shown, ultralow interest rates can greatly affect a society that was once impressively focused on innovation and investment.