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Debt fueled consumption

…one).” I am sure that Yves Smith knows this, but the debt-fueled consumption was more likely paying surging health care bills than buying cute kitchenettes. (charts are fixed…update rdan) Myth

Mind of the market…

the lens of evolution. Just as it is a myth that evolution is driven solely by “selfish genes” and that organisms are exclusively greedy, selfish and competitive, it is a…

The Irish Economic Miracle and Tax Policy

…Powell’s thesis that lower tax rates and increasing economic freedom were the primary cause of the Irish economic boom, the Irish Congress of Trade Unions argues: Of late, a myth

The Obsolescence of Nostalgia

…heroic inventor/businessman type, Marcuse’s hopes for liberation dwelt on a resigned anti-nostalgia for the mythical 19th century class-conscious revolutionary proletariat.  While Paterson and Rand were idolizing mythical productivist heroes, actual businessmen and…