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adam: from garden to market

Too many invisible hands. Opaque transactions.  Black pools. High frequency trading. We live in a much altered world than Adam Smith where the multinational corporation has found a natural habitat in the world of common markets.Our relative tariff enlightenment since … Continue reading

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DANCE NOW PAY LATER: LIQUIDITY TRAP BALLET

The consequences of John Maynard Keynes.He conceived the economic machinery that runs our lives. His brilliant engine, despite overhauls and tune-ups continues to run erratically. Is it the driver or the roads?… Keynes identified the economic importance of  animal spirits. … Continue reading

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THE INVISIBLE HAND:Who is the Third Who Walks Always Beside You?

What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow Out of this stony rubbish? Son of man, You cannot say, or guess, for you know only A heap of broken images, where the sun beats, And the dead tree gives … Continue reading

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ADAM SMITH & PONZI NATION: WEALTH OF RATIONS

Adam Smith published The Wealth of Nations in 1776 – not as a textbook, but as a polemical cannon aimed at governments that were subsidizing and protecting their merchants, their farmers, their manufacturers, against “unfair” competition, at home or from … Continue reading

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