…Combined Money Saving + Investment Spending* Investment spending, of course, causes the creation of real, long-lived goods. But this is the thing that has confused me from the get-go: Saving…

…trade intervention, or currency depreciation to block German exports, it had no choice but to balance the excess of German savings over investment. This meant that either its investment would…

…interest rate would lower investment, but raise consumption by net savers. Investment is already pushed higher from an interest rate below economic balance. So in effect investment falls toward “balanced”…

…Gross Investment. Source page at FRED. Note that private investment runs at about 7 times the total of government investment at all levels. Make of it what you will. H/T…

…It is the probability that the null hypothesis will be rejected if the alternative hypothesis is true. Usually, the alternative hypothesis is not a particular probability distribution but the hypothesis…

…enrollment rates among students of color despite their significant investment in alternative ways to boost diversity among the applicant pool and student body. Following California’s implementation of Proposition 209 in 1996,…

…at Café Hayek, libertarian economist Donald Boudreaux asks an interesting question: How does Claudine Gay’s “my truth” differ from Kellyanne Conway’s “alternative facts”? It seems to me that these ‘concepts’ share…

…not only the new fuel standards, which is a huge step forward, but also generous incentives for energy efficiency, for cleaner alternative fuels and for the new technologies that will…

…paper in which I define them. Standard micro founded models of investment are based on shareholder value maximization and assume that there are adjustment costs, so investment decisions must be…

…are of questionable efficacy in stimulating investment; B, the investment they stimulate is likely to be of dubious quality. After all, think about the investments you would do with a…