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Economic Complexity

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It is because a modern economy is so complex that nobody can know all the facts that it could not effectively be guided by a central plan but must be conducted on the basis of decentralization of decisions.

WuFlu GDP decline in 2020 2nd quarter

Data Point – OrangeManBad didn’t do too badly on the economy

…but this graphic is worth breaking out, especially since there are some people trying to claim that the U.S. response has been uniquely bad because #OrangeManBad. The U.S. has done much better than its peer and near-peer nations at limiting economic damage, and it’s done so without maintaining a higher death rate — in fact, …

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US Debt

Uh-Oh: If True, This Will Make our Current Economy Look Rather Rosy

And so it finally begins? Emphasis mine, reformatted: ‘U.S. Gets a Debt Warning From Fitch as Stimulus Battle Rages.’ (Bloomberg) One of the world’s major credit-rating companies fired a warning shot regarding the U.S.’s worsening public finances on Friday…

What if Biden Wins the Presidency

What if Biden Wins the Presidency?

What happens if Biden wins the presidency? Let’s think about the situation. For the first 3 years of Trump’s presidency, the stock market was rising and the economy was growing.  This masks many of the factors driving a sense of hopelessness in the country. Many Americans and the nation itself have unpayable debt.

Economy

Data Point – Economy surging

Reformatted: Retail sales skyrocketing by 18% in May as states began to reopen their economies. Economists projected that retail sales would increase 5.2% for June. Retail sales increased 7.5% in June, the U.S. Census Bureau reported on Thursday. retail and food services sales for June were $524.3 billion, which is not only a 7.5% increase …

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