The United States Economy is Destroyed

During the 1980s the Ronald Reagan administration embraced the Full Employment Act of 1978. This law mandates central economic planning and gives specific duties to the president, congress and the federal reserve. So, when would stimulus be administered to the U.S. economy? Why wait for a recession? Stimulate the economy every hour of every day.

Ronald Reagan started by tripling the deficit. This was supply side economics. Detractors called it trickle down economics. Lowering taxes was supposed to actually increase tax receipts. Taxes were decreased and receipts did increase. With a lower tax burden, Americans were not concerned that the following increase in spending more than offset any increase in revenue that resulted from the tax increase.

Stimulus of some kind has been applied by every administration every year. Who would opt for stimulus in an economy that was growing by leaps and bounds? Anyone who had the money and power to tap into the feeding frenzy in federal money loved stimulus. Given this new system, the incomes of the working class started shrinking as part of the national pie. The upper one percent began receiving greater and greater portions of the nation’s income.

The rich eventually gained so much political power that all of the countries energy was funneled into elevating the value of their assets. Inflation is the friend of the wealthy. Inflations created for their benefit.Deflation benefits the poor and occurs when the productivity of labor increases. In the system that has developed deflation is against the law. Congress passes laws to prevent it. The Federal Reserve creates money to prevent prices from falling and actively pushes stock prices higher.

A free market system is based on a system of out with the old and in with the new. It is an ongoing process. Stimulus is theft but it is the law of the land. All markets not just the stock markets are rigged by government policy. Running for office to serve is old school. Politicians run for office to position themselves and others who serve them above the law.

There is no integrity in government at all. Resources are completely mis allocated. As soon as the stock market implodes the economy and the political system will be destroyed. Rising asset prices have fueled the entire recovery.

The exact impact of an economic collapse is impossible to calculate. Knowing the collapse is coming is a piece of cake. Where the suffering will be most or least is not that easy. The rich will suffer the most in terms of dollar losses. Just expect chaos. Destroying the United States economy has taken almost forty years. Do not expect a quick rebound.

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About Fantasy Free Economics

James Quillian independent scholar,free market economist,and teacher of natural law. Who is James Quillian? Certainly I am nobody special, Just a tireless academic and deep thinker. Besides that, I have broken the code with respect to economics and political science. Credentials? Nothing you would be impressed with. I am not a household name. It is hard to become famous writing that virtually no one in the country is genuinely not in touch with reality. But, if I did not do that, there would be no point in my broking the broken the code. If you read the blog, it is easy to see that there are just a few charts, no math and no quantitative analysis. That is not by accident. Given what I know, those items are completely useless. I do turn out to be highly adept at applying natural law. Natural law has predominance over any principles the social science comes up. By virtue of understanding natural law, I can debunk, in just a few sentences , any theory that calls for intervention by a government. My taking the time to understand the ins and outs of Keynes General Theory is about like expecting a chemistry student to completely grasp all that the alchemists of the middle ages thought they understood in efforts to turn base metals into goal. Keynesian theory clearly calls for complete objectivity. Government can only make political decisions. Keynesian techniques call for economic decisions. So, why go any further with that? Fantasy Free Economics is in a sense a lot like technical analysis. Technical analysis began with the premise that it was impossible to gain enough information studying fundamentals to gain a trading advantage. Study the behavior of investors instead. Unlike technical analysis, I don't use technical charts. What I understand are the incentives of different people and entities active in the economics arena. For example, there is no such thing as an incentive to serve with life in the aggregate. In the aggregate, only self interest applies. It is routinely assumed otherwise. That is highly unappealing. But, I am sorry. That is the way it is. I can accept that because I am genuinely in touch with reality. Step one in using Fantasy Free Economics is for me to understand just how little I really know. A highly credentialed economist may know 100 times what I do based on the standard dogma. Compare the knowledge each of us has compared to all there is to know and we both look like we know nothing at all. There is always more than we don't know than what we do know. I am humble enough to present myself on that basis. Why? That is the way it is. I am not bad at math. I have taught math. What I understand is when to use it and when to rely on something else. Math is useless in natural law so I don't use it. While others look at numbers, I am busy understanding the forces in nature that makes their numbers what they are. That gives me a clear advantage.