by Andrew Moran | Dec 11, 2019 | Articles, Economic Affairs News
Did you miss the days of reckoning on Wall Street in mid-September? You may have heard in passing about a crash in the repo market when rates skyrocketed from 2% to as high as 10%, and the fed funds rate jumped five basis points above its target range. Why does it...
by Andrew Moran | Nov 18, 2019 | Articles, Business News, Economic Affairs News, International, Politics, Social Issues, Trade
As Lewis Carroll wrote in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – which has turned out to be a handbook for central banks to devise monetary policy and the public to understand it – “If you drink much from a bottle marked ‘poison’ it is certain to disagree with...
by Andrew Moran | Aug 16, 2019 | Articles, Economic Affairs News, Politics
Leftists had that thrill up their leg again, unseen since the election of President Barack Obama. Like democratic socialists when they see a portrait of Karl Marx and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), many people who wish the economy would collapse to own President Donald...
by Andrew Moran | Jun 12, 2019 | Articles, Business News, Economic Affairs News, Politics, Taxes
For years, public officials and the punditry class have taken George Costanza’s advice to appear busy by looking frustrated and upset. It gives the false impression that you’re immersed in your work while not really doing or achieving anything. That is sort of how the...
by Andrew Moran | Jun 9, 2019 | Articles, Columns, Economic Affairs News, Environmental, Politics, Social Issues, Taxes
Welcome to another installment of Swamponomics: Liberty Nation’s dive into the week’s morass of top news stories and the stream of economic fallacies that have been accepted as conventional wisdom by swamp creatures for years. For months, the White House has lobbied...