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What is the Cantillon Effect? Why It’s So Important in 2023

This article examines the Cantillon Effect’s relevance in the current economic environment. The Cantillon Effect is a monetary phenomenon where the initial recipients of new money see a disproportionate benefit while the latter face a diminished effect. This article will provide an in-depth analysis of the Cantillon Effect and its implications for the global economy, […]

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Paul Tudor Jones: We are getting ready to deploy our recession playbook

Economics, Investing, Recession / Steve Burns

Paul Tudor Jones became famous after appearing in the PBS documentary The Trader in 1987 where he anticipated a stock market crash. He used stock index futures to triple his capital under management during the Black Monday crash in 1987 with large short positions while most other traders were ruined or suffered huge losses. His

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The Worst Oil Crisis In 40 Years Has Started

Economics, Energy, Oil / Steve Burns

Oil supply and demand Even though the United States is the world’s biggest producer of oil it still uses more than it makes requiring imports of oil. The world currently uses approximately 100 million barrels of oil a day, the U.S. produces about $18.8 million barrels a day in 2022 up from 2021. However the

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China Is About To Cause A Global Recession

China, Economics / Steve Burns

With the globalization of world trade, national economies have never been more interrelated which means that when one country slows down it can have a ripple effect across the entire world. Below are the world’s top export countries that shipped the highest dollar value in exports during 2021 and the growth over 2020. 1. China

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What is Stagflation?

Economics / Steve Burns

In economics, stagflation also known as recession-inflation is a situation in which both the inflation rate is high while the economic growth rate slows at the same time the unemployment remains high over time. It creates a problem for monetary and economic policy makers because actions taken that are intended to lower inflation may make

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Cantillon Effect

Economics, Investing, Trading / Steve Burns

A Cantillon effect is a change in prices related to one another that was caused due to a change in the money supply, first discovered by Richard Cantillon an 18th-century economist. History shows that some assets are favored over other ones when extra money is available in the economy for spending and investing. These preferences

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Best Economics Books

Books, Economics / Steve Burns

Here are 50 of the best economics books every published based on the list in 50 Economics Classics: Your shortcut to the most important ideas on capitalism, finance, and the global economy by Tom Butler-Bowdon. Milton Friedman: Capitalism and Freedom Friedrich Hayek: The Use of Knowledge in Society Deirdre McCloskey: Bourgeois Equality Karl Marx: Capital Ludwig

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Best Milton Friedman Quotes

Economics / Steve Burns

Milton Friedman (July 31, 1912-November 16, 2006) was a famous economist and statistician who was awarded the 1976 Nobel Prize in Economics for his research and work on consumption analysis, monetary history and theory along with the complexity of stabilization policy. Friedman was one of the intellectual leaders of the Chicago school of economics, associated

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What are Trade Offs?

Economics / Steve Burns

Since we all have limited time, energy and resources every decision we make comes with a trade off. Even procrastinating, making no decision and doing nothing is a trade off versus potential action and opportunities. Making any choice changes the course of our life and collapses potential paths to your future. At any one time

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Current National Debt 2021

Debt, Economics, Inflation / Steve Burns

What is the current national debt? The current national debt in June 2021 for the United States is approximately $28.4 trillion U.S. dollars. This is more than $3.2 trillion from a year ago, when it was approximately $24.9 trillion U.S. dollars. This debt increases the amount of U.S. dollars in circulation and can cause inflation

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Current Largest Economies in the World 2021

Economics / Steve Burns

Below is a list of the current largest economies in the world in 2021 based on the most recent data available. Nominal GDP in U.S. Dollars: Measures and compares GDP between nations by considering local prices and local currencies converted to U.S. dollars. This the primary number that determines a countries ranking on this list.

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Best John Maynard Keynes Economics Quotes

Economics / Steve Burns

John Maynard Keynes was a legendary English economist in the first half of the twentieth century. He was a trailblazer in economic thought and had new ideas that fundamentally changed the theory and practice of macroeconomics along with the economic policies of governments that continue to this day. He was originally a mathematician, but evolved

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Positive Skew vs Negative Skew

Economics, Trading / Steve Burns

What is the difference between positive skew versus negative skew? Skewness is the measurement of a a coefficient that has the ability to be positive, negative or neutral (zero). The coefficient of the skew is the measurement of the magnitude of the symmetry in the distribution of outcomes of a specific data set of occurrences.

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What is a Fiat Currency?

Economics, Money / Steve Burns

A fiat currency is a type of money that has no intrinsic value and can’t be exchanged for any physical commodity or good. A fiat currency is usually created inside a national economy and is legal tender for the buying and selling of goods and as payment for all debts both public and private inside

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What the Hell is Going On?

Economics, Stock Market / Steve Burns

One big question so many people currently have that are knowledgeable about economics and investing is “What the hell is going on with the stock market?” As the pandemic expanded around the world in late February and early March economies of entire countries and then U.S. states started to shut down and quarantine their citizens

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The Efficient Market Hypothesis Explained

Economics / Steve Burns

The efficient market hypothesis or ‘EMH’ for short is the theory in economics that believes all known information is already reflected in current stock prices. The followers of this hypothesis believe that due to this fact it is not possible to beat buy and hold investing over the long term in returns or even in

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What is Money?

Economics / Steve Burns

Money is any accepted unit or verifiable ledger that is used and accepted for transactions of goods and services, payments on debts, or tax collections inside a specific geographic area, nation, or union. Money is defined as anything that functions in two way transactional exchanges, it can be measured in units in an account, deferred

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Law Of Supply And Demand

Economics / Steve Burns

The laws of supply and demand are foundation economic principles that is the primary motivation for producers and consumers in making their decisions. The law of demand says the higher the price of a product the less customers will want of a product or service. Demand is set from the law of diminishing value versus price,

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What Is Creative Destruction?

Capitalism, Economics / Steve Burns

Creative destruction (Also sometimes known as Schumpeter’s gale), is a concept of economics which is known primarily from Joseph Schumpeter who was an Austrian economist. The theory of creative destruction originally came from the writings of Karl Marx and it became a popular theory for the business cycle of innovation and destruction. Schumpeter said that

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The Time Value Of Money Formula

Economics / Steve Burns

The time value of money is the measurement of the benefit of getting money in the present instead of the same amount at a later time in the future. It is based on the preference of when you receive money on a time line. Time value of money is the reason interest is received. Interest

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