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Debt, Deficits, and Warranted Money

March 14, 2024/3 Comments/in Brian Czech, Economic Growth, Economic Policy, Food and Agriculture, Inflation, Monetary Policy, Money and Investments, Steady State Economy, Steady State Herald /by Gary Gardner

by Brian Czech

If you recognize the damages done by a bloating economy, you’ll be alarmed by the global GDP meter, which hit the existentially menacing threshold of $100 trillion in 2022. If that doesn’t give you a dose of distress, try the global debt clock. Then, for a dizzying dose indeed, check the casino-like combination of debt and GDP maintained by “US Debt Clock.”

Almost all readers,

Paul Krugman on Limits to Growth: Beware the Bathwater

October 23, 2014/2 Comments/in Brian Czech, Economic Growth, Steady State Economy, Technology, The Daly News /by Brian Czech

Brian Czech responds to Paul Krugman’s shockingly weak column, which argues against the limits to growth with the example of slow steaming.

Krugman’s Growthism

April 29, 2014/5 Comments/in Consumption, Economic Growth, Economic Policy, Environment, Governance, Steady State Economy, The Daly News /by Brian Czech

Does Paul Krugman believe GDP growth is making us richer or poorer?

The Negative Natural Interest Rate and Uneconomic Growth

January 13, 2014/6 Comments/in Banking, Economic Growth, Economic Policy, Environment, Governance, Jobs and Employment, Monetary Policy, Money and Investments, Steady State Economy, The Daly News /by Brian Czech

The next nonsensical strategy for maintaining the dream of endless GDP expansion? Negative interest rates!

Growth and Free Trade: Brain-Dead Dogmas Still Kicking Hard

February 6, 2012/7 Comments/in Consumption, Economic Growth, Economic Policy, Environment, Sustainability, The Daly News /by Brian Czech

Of course, it’s better to be rich than poor, but the conventional approaches for making us rich — GDP growth and free trade — no longer apply.