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Economics is the discipline that studies how people respond to scarcity, i.e., the observed fact that individuals desire more than they already possess, whether the object of their desire is wealth, health, education, security, or some other intangible good or service. An economy can be viewed as a social mechanism that emerges when individuals cooperate with others in order to deal with the problem of scarcity. It is a vast network of individuals (and institutions guided by individuals) that make, barter, sell, and buy goods and services in order to achieve their desired ends.
Economic forces are at work virtually any time exchanges occur or resources are used. A knowledge of economic principles—fundamental truths identifying patterns or components of economic cause and effect—is essential for understanding phenomena such as prices, markets, commerce, employment, industrial output, economic growth and prosperity, and business fluctuations. The economic way of thinking (including the recognition of incentives, constraints, opportunity costs, transactions costs, and self-interested motives) is also useful for the study of non-market phenomena such as government regulations, elections, lobbying, and government decision making.
Are We Caught with the Greenback? WASHINGTON—Like so many individuals, I personal gold and silver as a hedge towards the “Latin Americanization” of america—cash printing, deficits and debt. The speak about ending the world’s greenback dependency must be music to…
Warren Buffett’s Testomony WASHINGTON—Berkshire Hathaway’s Warren Buffett, the fabled investor, has introduced the largest deal of his life: He’ll purchase the stake he doesn’t already personal in Burlington Northern Santa Fe, the railroad operator, for $26.6 billion and assume the…
The Fed’s Woody Allen Coverage Efforts to stoke a restoration could also be creating new asset bubbles in equities and elsewhere. Within the Woody Allen movie “Annie Corridor,” the principle character tries to elucidate irrational relationships by recounting an previous…
The Fed’s Woody Allen Coverage Within the Woody Allen movie “Annie Corridor,” the principle character tries to elucidate irrational relationships by recounting an outdated joke. “This man goes to a psychiatrist and says, ‘My brother’s loopy, he thinks he’s a…
The Poisonous Tongue WASHINGTON—Barack Obama, whose political fortunes are being overturned by a tide of nationwide frustration that started spreading earlier than he took workplace, has adopted a populist stance towards the mighty bankers. However his proposals towards the evils…
Bernanke Agonistes President Obama pulled out all of the stops to clinch Senate approval of his nomination of Ben S. Bernanke to a second four-year time period as chairman of the Federal Reserve. Now that the president appears to have…
Paulson and the Worry Issue WASHINGTON—There’s a second in former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson’s memoirs when—throughout a Capitol Hill dialogue over a monetary rescue plan—he succumbs to emphasize and suffers an assault of dry heaves in entrance of a U.S.…
No Restoration Till America Invests Once more Whereas most Individuals are conversant in the broad ups and downs of the financial system and the job market—the stuff of day by day headlines—the deeper story of the persevering with recession will…
Fabulous Fab WASHINGTON—The world has been craving to place a reputation and a face to the monetary quackery. We’d like a flesh-and-blood criminal. The financial institution CEOs—grey, previous, predictable—weren’t sufficient. Bernie Madoff was an abhorrent byproduct, not a core participant.…
Mr. Obama and the Bankers: “Doin’ What Comes Natur’lly” Talking to a really receptive Elyria, Ohio, crowd just a few months in the past, President Obama took off the gloves and promised that he was able to combat to offer…
