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10 Flaws with Mainstream Economics

Tom Spencer

Corporate finance academics argue that firms should act to maximise shareholder value, since shareholders are the owners of the firm. For example, Amazon earned only modest profits from 2004 to 2015, choosing instead to focus on increasing market share and developing new products. Factors of production. Willingness to pay.

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Reflections on 2013; What's Important, What's Not? What's Ahead?

MishTalk

Had I suggested in 2007 that the Fed balance sheet expansion of $75 billion a month would have been considered "tightening" people would have thought I was nuts. Total credit in the economy (total social financing) showed a 40 per cent rise in November over the prior month and is on course for growth this year of almost 20 per cent.