0.25 interest rate hike

People need to be self supporting as much as possible. THAT is the one true answer.
 
You are truly an idiot.

Can’t you at least quickly look up the schools of economics that exist and see which ones basically cover what you believe about economics?


You can’t be bothered


Because you know nothing of value about economics


Which is my whole point
 
Our company didnt take one thin dime of Covid money . Didnt need to. All these companies around us that took the money,....many in excess of a million dollars, and it was all forgiven. Just free money.....heres a million bucks,..just take it even though you never shut down. WTF! Payroll protection act. Sooooo glad we didnt do it. Nowadays anyone at all can look up who took it by zip code. A lot of the companies are now hated for it. People are looking at it like......" Gee, the govt just gave a free million dollars to someone who was already very wealthy. WTF"
 
Branches of economics

1. Classical economics

Classical economics is often considered the foundation of modern economics. It was developed by Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Jean-Baptiste Say. Classical economics is based on

Operation of free markets. How the invisible hand and market mechanism can enable an efficient allocation of resources.
Classical economics suggests that generally, economies work most efficiently when government intervention is minimal and concerned with the protection of private property, promotion of free trade and limited government spending.
Classical economics does recognise that a government is needed for providing public goods, such as defence, law and order and education.
2. Neo-classical economics

Key people: Leon Walrus, William Jevons, John Hicks, George Stigler and Alfred Marshall.

Neo-classical economics built on the foundations of free-market based classical economics. It included new ideas such as

Utility maximisation.
Rational choice theory
Marginal analysis. How individuals will make decisions at the margin – choosing the best option given marginal cost and benefit.
Neo-classical economics is often considered to be orthodox economics. It is the economics taught in most text-books as the starting point for economics teaching. The tools of neo-classical economics (supply and demand, rational choice, utility maximisation) can be used in new fields and also for critiques.

3. Keynesian economics

Key people: John Maynard Keynes, Paul Samuelson.

Keynesian economics was developed in the 1930s against a backdrop of the Great Depression. The existing economic orthodoxy was at a loss to explain the persistent economic depression and mass unemployment. Keynes suggested that markets failed to clear for many reasons (e.g. paradox of thrift, negative multiplier, low confidence). Therefore, Keynes advocated government intervention to kick-start the economy.

Keynesian economics is credited with creating macroeconomics as a distinct study. Keynes argued that the aggregate economy may operate in very different ways to individual markets and different rules and policies were needed.

Keynes didn’t reject all elements of neo-classical economics but felt new ideas were needed for the macro-economy – especially with the economy in recession.

Keynesian economics
4. Monetarist economics

Key people: Milton Friedman, Anna Schwartz.

Monetarism was partly a reaction to the dominance of Keynesian economics in the post-war period. Monetarists, led by Milton Friedman argued that Keynesian fiscal policy was much less effective than Keynesians suggested. Monetarists promoted previous classical ideals, such as belief in the efficiency of markets. They also placed emphasis on the control of the money supply as a way to control inflation.

Monetarist economics became influential in the 1970s and 1980s, in a period of high inflation – which appeared to illustrate the breakdown of the post-war consensus

Monetarism
5. Austrian economics

Key people: Ludwig Von Mises, Carl Menger

This is another school of economics that was critical of state intervention, price controls. It is broadly free-market. However, it criticised elements of classical school – placing greater emphasis on the individual value and actions of an individual. For example, Austrian economists argue the value of a good reflects the marginal utility of the good – rather than the labour inputs.

Austrian economics
6. Marxist economics

Key people: Karl Marx

Emphasises unequal and unstable nature of capitalism. Seeks a radically different approach to basic economic questions. Rather than relying on free-market advocate state intervention in ownership, planning and distribution of resources.

7. Neo-liberalism/Neo-classical

A modern interpretation of classical economics. Considerable overlap with monetarism. Essentially concerned with the promotion of free-markets, competition, free trade, privatisation, lower government involvement, but some minimal state intervention in public services like health and education. Few identify as ‘neo-liberal’ – sometimes used as a term of abuse.

Neoliberalism | Related terms: Washington Consensus
New Branches of economics

Environmental economics/welfare economics

Key people: Garrett Hardin, E.F. Schumacher, Arthur Pigou.

This places greater emphasis on the environment. This can include:

Neo-classical analysis of external costs and external benefits. From this perspective, it is rational for man to reduce pollution
Market failures – tragedy of the commons, Public goods, external costs, external benefits.
Environmental economics can take a more radical approach – questioning whether economic growth is actually desirable.
Behavioural economics

Key people: Gary Becker, Amos Tversky, Daniel Kahneman, Richard Thaler, Robert J. Shiller,

Behavioural economics examines the psychology behind economic decision making and economic activity. Behavioural economics examines the limitation of the assumption individuals are perfectly rational. It includes

Bounded rationality – people make choices by rules of thumb
Irrational exuberance – People get carried away by asset bubbles.
Nudges/Choice architecture – how the framing of decisions affects the outcome
Development economics

Key people: Simon Kuznets and W. Arthur Lewis, Amartya Sen and Muhammad Yunus.

Concerned with issues of poverty and under-development in poorer countries of the world. Development economics is concerned with both micro and macro aspects of economic development. Issues include

Trade vs aid
Increasing capital investment.
Best ways to promote economic development
Third World debt
Econometrics

Key people: Jan Tinbergen

Use of data to find simple relationships. Econometrics uses statistical methods, regression models and data to predict the outcome of economic policies. For example, Okun’s law suggests a relationship between economic growth and unemployment.

Labour economics

Key people: Knut Wicksell

Concentration on wages, labour employment and labour markets. Labour economics starts from the neo-classical premise of labour supply and marginal revenue product of labour.

Recent developments in labour economics have placed greater emphasis on non-monetary factors, such as motivation, enjoyment and labour market imperfections.

Other schools of economics

Chicago school – Based on neo-classical economics, rational choice and benefits of free markets. Key people from Chicago university, include Frank Knight, Milton Friedman, Eugene Fama and Gary Becker

Institutional economics – A look at how institutions, society and social trends can influence economics. A forerunner of behavioural economics. Key people include Thorstein Veblen, John Kenneth Galbraith, and Ha-Joon Chang.

Distributism/social-democratic approach. Seeking a third way between capitalism and socialism.

Real Business Cycle – Models that suggest macroeconomic fluctuations caused by supply-side changes, such as technological shocks. See – Real business cycle

Mercantilism – Early model of economics emphasising tariff barriers and the accumulation of gold reserves. Mercantilism

Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) – is a recent development that emphasises the ability of the government to print money and borrow in order to achieve full employment. See Modern Monetary Theory (MMT)
 
Our company didnt take one thin dime of Covid money . Didnt need to. All these companies around us that took the money,....many in excess of a million dollars, and it was all forgiven. Just free money.....heres a million bucks,..just take it even though you never shut down. WTF! Payroll protection act. Sooooo glad we didnt do it. Nowadays anyone at all can look up who took it by zip code. A lot of the companies are now hated for it. People are looking at it like......" Gee, the govt just gave a free million dollars to someone who was already very wealthy. WTF"

Then report them so they can be made to give it back and have fines assessed on top of that
 
Our company didnt take one thin dime of Covid money . Didnt need to. All these companies around us that took the money,....many in excess of a million dollars, and it was all forgiven. Just free money.....heres a million bucks,..just take it even though you never shut down. WTF! Payroll protection act. Sooooo glad we didnt do it. Nowadays anyone at all can look up who took it by zip code. A lot of the companies are now hated for it. People are looking at it like......" Gee, the govt just gave a free million dollars to someone who was already very wealthy. WTF"


They didn't shut down and they didn't lay off workers - even though the government made it nearly impossible to turn a profit.

Don't be the shithead that turns on your fellow citizen when governments act badly.
 
Can’t you at least quickly look up the schools of economics that exist and see which ones basically cover what you believe about economics?


You can’t be bothered


Because you know nothing of value about economics


Which is my whole point

STFU you old crazy. Ive known about the different schools of economics for several decades.....:laugh: The last thing I need is some simpleton like you trying to explain economics to me. Go tell it to one of your hood rats on welfare.
 
They didn't shut down and they didn't lay off workers - even though the government made it nearly impossible to turn a profit.

Don't be the shithead that turns on your fellow citizen when governments act badly.

I know. Which is why they shouldnt have taken the money.
 
STFU you old crazy. Ive known about the different schools of economics for several decades.....:laugh: The last thing I need is some simpleton like you trying to explain economics to me. Go tell it to one of your hood rats on welfare.

Thanks for admitting you have NO IDEA what the actual experts believe in the field of economics


You wing it from your partisan racist Brain full of trump slobber
 
Branches of economics

1. Classical economics

Classical economics is often considered the foundation of modern economics. It was developed by Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Jean-Baptiste Say. Classical economics is based on

Operation of free markets. How the invisible hand and market mechanism can enable an efficient allocation of resources.
Classical economics suggests that generally, economies work most efficiently when government intervention is minimal and concerned with the protection of private property, promotion of free trade and limited government spending.
Classical economics does recognise that a government is needed for providing public goods, such as defence, law and order and education.
2. Neo-classical economics

Key people: Leon Walrus, William Jevons, John Hicks, George Stigler and Alfred Marshall.

Neo-classical economics built on the foundations of free-market based classical economics. It included new ideas such as

Utility maximisation.
Rational choice theory
Marginal analysis. How individuals will make decisions at the margin – choosing the best option given marginal cost and benefit.
Neo-classical economics is often considered to be orthodox economics. It is the economics taught in most text-books as the starting point for economics teaching. The tools of neo-classical economics (supply and demand, rational choice, utility maximisation) can be used in new fields and also for critiques.

3. Keynesian economics

Key people: John Maynard Keynes, Paul Samuelson.

Keynesian economics was developed in the 1930s against a backdrop of the Great Depression. The existing economic orthodoxy was at a loss to explain the persistent economic depression and mass unemployment. Keynes suggested that markets failed to clear for many reasons (e.g. paradox of thrift, negative multiplier, low confidence). Therefore, Keynes advocated government intervention to kick-start the economy.

Keynesian economics is credited with creating macroeconomics as a distinct study. Keynes argued that the aggregate economy may operate in very different ways to individual markets and different rules and policies were needed.

Keynes didn’t reject all elements of neo-classical economics but felt new ideas were needed for the macro-economy – especially with the economy in recession.

Keynesian economics
4. Monetarist economics

Key people: Milton Friedman, Anna Schwartz.

Monetarism was partly a reaction to the dominance of Keynesian economics in the post-war period. Monetarists, led by Milton Friedman argued that Keynesian fiscal policy was much less effective than Keynesians suggested. Monetarists promoted previous classical ideals, such as belief in the efficiency of markets. They also placed emphasis on the control of the money supply as a way to control inflation.

Monetarist economics became influential in the 1970s and 1980s, in a period of high inflation – which appeared to illustrate the breakdown of the post-war consensus

Monetarism
5. Austrian economics

Key people: Ludwig Von Mises, Carl Menger

This is another school of economics that was critical of state intervention, price controls. It is broadly free-market. However, it criticised elements of classical school – placing greater emphasis on the individual value and actions of an individual. For example, Austrian economists argue the value of a good reflects the marginal utility of the good – rather than the labour inputs.

Austrian economics
6. Marxist economics

Key people: Karl Marx

Emphasises unequal and unstable nature of capitalism. Seeks a radically different approach to basic economic questions. Rather than relying on free-market advocate state intervention in ownership, planning and distribution of resources.

7. Neo-liberalism/Neo-classical

A modern interpretation of classical economics. Considerable overlap with monetarism. Essentially concerned with the promotion of free-markets, competition, free trade, privatisation, lower government involvement, but some minimal state intervention in public services like health and education. Few identify as ‘neo-liberal’ – sometimes used as a term of abuse.

Neoliberalism | Related terms: Washington Consensus
New Branches of economics

Environmental economics/welfare economics

Key people: Garrett Hardin, E.F. Schumacher, Arthur Pigou.

This places greater emphasis on the environment. This can include:

Neo-classical analysis of external costs and external benefits. From this perspective, it is rational for man to reduce pollution
Market failures – tragedy of the commons, Public goods, external costs, external benefits.
Environmental economics can take a more radical approach – questioning whether economic growth is actually desirable.
Behavioural economics

Key people: Gary Becker, Amos Tversky, Daniel Kahneman, Richard Thaler, Robert J. Shiller,

Behavioural economics examines the psychology behind economic decision making and economic activity. Behavioural economics examines the limitation of the assumption individuals are perfectly rational. It includes

Bounded rationality – people make choices by rules of thumb
Irrational exuberance – People get carried away by asset bubbles.
Nudges/Choice architecture – how the framing of decisions affects the outcome
Development economics

Key people: Simon Kuznets and W. Arthur Lewis, Amartya Sen and Muhammad Yunus.

Concerned with issues of poverty and under-development in poorer countries of the world. Development economics is concerned with both micro and macro aspects of economic development. Issues include

Trade vs aid
Increasing capital investment.
Best ways to promote economic development
Third World debt
Econometrics

Key people: Jan Tinbergen

Use of data to find simple relationships. Econometrics uses statistical methods, regression models and data to predict the outcome of economic policies. For example, Okun’s law suggests a relationship between economic growth and unemployment.

Labour economics

Key people: Knut Wicksell

Concentration on wages, labour employment and labour markets. Labour economics starts from the neo-classical premise of labour supply and marginal revenue product of labour.

Recent developments in labour economics have placed greater emphasis on non-monetary factors, such as motivation, enjoyment and labour market imperfections.

Other schools of economics

Chicago school – Based on neo-classical economics, rational choice and benefits of free markets. Key people from Chicago university, include Frank Knight, Milton Friedman, Eugene Fama and Gary Becker

Institutional economics – A look at how institutions, society and social trends can influence economics. A forerunner of behavioural economics. Key people include Thorstein Veblen, John Kenneth Galbraith, and Ha-Joon Chang.

Distributism/social-democratic approach. Seeking a third way between capitalism and socialism.

Real Business Cycle – Models that suggest macroeconomic fluctuations caused by supply-side changes, such as technological shocks. See – Real business cycle

Mercantilism – Early model of economics emphasising tariff barriers and the accumulation of gold reserves. Mercantilism

Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) – is a recent development that emphasises the ability of the government to print money and borrow in order to achieve full employment. See Modern Monetary Theory (MMT)




These are the ideas of the worlds EXPERTS ON ECONOMIC ISSUES



You refuse to discuss this in even the smallest of detail for what reason?
 
"How do I explain I have no idea how to run a business without coming out and just saying it"

Different people are taught different things. In my family there is no such thing as taking money from Government. Can you tell me WHY in the wide world of fuckall a company who never shut down and never lost a thin dime during covid should be allowed to just be gifted a million dollars?
 
Different people are taught different things. In my family there is no such thing as taking money from Government. Can you tell me WHY in the wide world of fuckall a company who never shut down and never lost a thin dime during covid should be allowed to just be gifted a million dollars?

THEN REPORT THEIR CRIMES ASSHOLE!
 
Dont have to. There are so many people looking this stuff up by zip code that its unreal. We are coming out of this smelling like a rose. ;)

No

It’s because you are just fucking lying about your competition that is squashing your ass


You have no idea who took what money and why


You are doing the Trump brain idiocy of assuming bad things about others to pump up your own image of your self
 
Dont have to. There are so many people looking this stuff up by zip code that its unreal. We are coming out of this smelling like a rose. ;)

Now tell us which one of those schools of economics best fits your take on economics



You can’t and you won’t


Because in your fetid brain nothing fits it


It’s just you pissing and moaning about anything the experts do
 
No

It’s because you are just fucking lying about your competition that is squashing your ass


You have no idea who took what money and why


You are doing the Trump brain idiocy of assuming bad things about others to pump up your own image of your self

LMAO! Look it up yourself you fucking idiot. ANYONE with computer access can look up by zip code who took the money, for what reason " most said payroll LOL...;)" and if it got paid back or forgiven. Almost nobody had to pay back. Loans were all forgiven.
 
Raising the rates again simply notes that inflation is still high and not controlled. Pretending this is a good thing is just pretense. The poor are hurt the most by this insanity, and you have idiots (on this very site) who have literally said that you can "just print more money" to get out of it as if they simply do not understand the impact of that on inflation. Inflation is monetary and cannot be separated from that.

Pretending what is a good thing? The fact that year over year inflation has come down for the last five months? I don't think I'm pretending. That the Fed has signaled an easing of rate hikes? I don't think I'm pretending. I get that you are part of the Chicken Little brigade, but the sky hasn't fallen. Sorry to disappoint you.
 
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