Economics for the Intelligent Amateur

“We are all Keynesians now”. This phrase, uttered by Milton Friedman and popularly attributed to Richard Nixon (who did say something similar), shows the influence this one man and his economics has had on our past century, and continues to have in this one. No Economic analysis is complete without an explanation of [...]

Happy Birthday to Jason Nagashima and Rebecca Gebhardt!! We hope you have very Efficient and Globalized Birthdays!
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Friedrich von Hayek was an Austrian economist, always staunchly pro Free market, Free trade and anti-socialist. He was also the most prominent proponent of what is now called the Austrian school of Economics and first became well known thanks to his book: The Road to Serfdom.
These days, while almost everyone remembers Keynes, relatively [...]

If you have any interest whatsoever in the workings and machinations of the world, we heartily recommend watching Commanding Heights at some point in your life. Here we feature much of it in our playlist, to give you a taste:
From the Dumb Agent Youtube channel, the playlist is here.

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