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Build Back Better? With What Resources?

by Chris MacIntosh via International Man Here’s the current budget deficit. The blue is good and the orange is bad. You can see a lot of orange, and after 2008 things have been decidedly “orange.” Since there is no actual cash in the piggy bank the US government has to borrow it. Meanwhile, debt spirals higher. […]

Fatal Macro Warnings: We’re Gonna Need a Bigger Boat

by Matthew Piepenburg via Gold Switzerland As one who loves metaphor, I can’t help but notice the recent and varying range of metaphorical macro warnings. JP Morgan’s Jamie Dimon, for example, is now predicting a “market hurricane” ahead, which Peter Schiff has recently upgraded to a “Category 5.” Meanwhile, the always blunt Michael Burry has […]

The Money Supply Grew in November, but the Bigger Trend Is Way Down

by Ryan McMaken via Mises Institute Lee esto en Español Money supply growth rose slightly in November, rising above October’s twenty-one-month low. Even with November’s rise, though, money supply growth remains far below the unprecedented highs experienced during much of the past two years. During thirteen months between April 2020 and April 2021, money supply growth in the United […]