“In recent years, annual trading in stocks — necessarily creating, by reason of the transaction costs involved, negative value for traders — averaged some $33 trillion. But capital formation — that is, directing fresh investment capital to its highest and best uses, such as new businesses, new technology, medical breakthroughs, and modern plant and equipmentContinueContinue reading “Finance is Destroying the Economy”
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The Next Recession
It is unusual for a bull market to last much longer than ten years. Increasing instability would suggest that this one is nearing its end. This has some important implication for the coming decade.