The Stimulus Boom Is Already Over: Now Comes Stagnation

by Daniel Lacalle via Mises The United States retail sales and jobless claims weakness, significantly below estimates, coincides with the largest fiscal and monetary stimulus in history. Something is not right when these figures come significantly below estimates in an environment of massive upgrades to gross domestic …

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Why Stimulus Does Not Stimulate

via Robert Blumen: Congress is hard at work on a stimulus bill. Doubtless their efforts will pay off. Does anyone stop to ask what it is about stimulus that stimulates? And what, exactly, does it stimulate? Start by spending a lot of …

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U.S. Stimulus Has Created a Boom–in China

by Charles Hugh-Smith Maybe maximizing corporate profits isn’t all that matters. Maybe national security and resilience matter, too, and if they do, then reshoring critical supply chains should be a higher priority than Corporate America’s (mostly tax-free) profits. As America’s …

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Why Some May Never Get Their $1,400 Stimulus Check

Over the past couple of weeks, the Internal Revenue Service and U.S. Treasury have worked tirelessly to send out a hundred twenty-seven million coronavirus relief checks under the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan to financially struggling Americans. However, there already have been reports of honest taxpaying …

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