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How Capitalism Reduces Poverty And Creates Wealth Authored by James T. Moodey via American Thinker, The word capitalism was coined in the 1700s. The definition was vague. It generally meant "private property traded freely" or "free markets." However, most non-totalitarian countries had free markets, and these countries in Europe and elsewhere were not particularly wealthy. Their rural people were paupers living off the land, even in England, France, and the U.S. at our founding. We generally regard capitalism as creating wealth, but free markets are not what created the enormous wealth that...

Trump Admin Working To Ease Memory Chip Crunch And Soaring Prices With Supply Chain Coalition In a world where high commodity prices are the cure for high commodity prices, it was only a matter of time before we saw a surge in oil output in response to near-record oil prices, as Diamondback did ovenright. The same logic applies to memory chips, another commodity, whose prices have exploded in recent months due to soaring demand by data centers. And while markets expect prices to drop once more supply comes on line, the...

The Great Repression Authored by Robert Burrows via BondVigilantes.com, Across much of the developed world, governments are spending an increasing share of their tax revenues servicing debt. Source: Federal Reserve Economic Data The era when debt could rise indefinitely while interest costs remained low appears to be ending. Source: Bloomberg The second chart hints at how this problem may be confronted. Over the last fifty years, debt-to-GDP has risen relentlessly while real interest rates have generally moved in the opposite direction. That relationship is unlikely to be accidental. Highly indebted governments and persistently high real interest...