OPEC Extra Cost
High price of oil have elevated prices for all manufactured goods as well as across the transportation sector.
Category: Economics
Earning a living, investing for retirement, and understanding how world events impact our living standard.
Free Market versus Status Quo
Are financial talking heads praising the return of free market action? No, they are bemoaning the decline in energy stocks and the change it forces upon the stock market.
An Empire of Wealth. John Steele Gordon
... much to admire about the book; nonetheless, the antagonism to the Glass-Steagall Act was striking in revealing Gordon's short-sightedness to the coming financial crisis, with banks taking massive risks with depositors money that the…
Inflation Measurement
Actual inflation occurs when your income can't buy the same daily goods with your salary
Deflation and Falling Energy Prices
Declining gasoline, diesel, and petrochemical prices help the non-energy economy grow, boosting activity that 90% of the GDP that is not in the energy sector.
Creative Destruction and the Social Contract
Financially arranged consolidation is not creative destruction. It is the transfer of assets without pension responsibility
Gas Price Inflation
In Twilight Zone episode, gas is 32.9 cents/gal. Now it's 10 times higher. What's the inflation rate?
Minimum Wage Boosts GDP
More of the worker’s income goes into economic activity, increasing GDP while the owners build their savings.
Aggregate Effects of the Top 1% Earners
With 93% of income growth being taken by the Top 1%, the salaries of workers and lower level managers are barely growing, so the nation’s GDP barely grows.
Class Warfare and Status Quo
If unrest and riots are quelled without adjustments in societal and economic reality, they will reoccur—like earthquakes which always has us wondering, "Is this the big one?"