…people, not money. An economy’s efficiency is calculated by the accumulated reduction of risk, not increase in money. Counting, manipulating, playing with the money is like playing with the energy…

…matter what kind of government people want, that government will cost money. Americans must understand how that money can be fairly and efficiently raised. How can you make a charitable…

…come back to AIG if instruments don’t actually default. But noooo the money was spent unwinding contracts and will never come back. The unwiding deals were made by sterling characters…

In Part I of this series, I showed that the US spends a lot more money on health care – now over 50% more as a percent of GDP than…

…some sort of crisis exists and that Social Security has gone belly-up. But that just isn’t true. Where will the government get the money? Neal, it will borrow the money,…

…documents and interviews with government agencies, companies and auditors. Most of the money is for two controversial deals that originally had been financed with money approved by the U.S. Congress,…

…of your money debt, you’re saving. When you don’t spend some of the money in your checking account, you’re saving. Each of these is true within a given (usually implicit)…

…and how it creates “money” for the financial system. Start here: The other deleveraging: What economists need to know about the modern money creation process In brief, banks create debt…

…But: 1. A great deal of that dot-bomb money didn’t “go” anywhere; it simply vanished. You gotta ask: this would result in more money going into real estate, with the…

…to see it as money growth that was not used for increasing real output. In other words, money is being used to increase employment and production. Money then needs to…