Alvaro Vargas Llosa | Monday February 12, 2018 at 1:27 PM PDT | Comments Off on Panic Attacks Startle Wall Street
The danger of seeing the stock market as a measure of political performance is that the government will be tempted to intervene.
Tags: Dow Jones, inflation market corrections, interest rate manipulation, stock market, Wall Street
Robert Murphy | Wednesday November 9, 2016 at 4:59 PM PDT | Comments Off on Reflections on Donald Trump’s Election
As the markets and pundits react to Donald Trump’s enormous upset victory, let me offer my own reactions. As an economist, I will focus on matters pertaining to economic policy. The Danger of Hubris and Denial. Everybody recognizes that the “experts” and polls were totally wrong. Indeed, I was listening to NPR around 6…
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Tags: 2016 election, Affordable Care Act, Civil Liberties, Donald Trump, Federal Reserve, gold stanard, hard money, Immigration, protectionism, stock market
