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The continued growth of mobile money should excite anyone who believes private sector innovations are the best means of achieving sustainable economic and financial development across the developing world.
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The continued popularity of the cast-iron skillet illustrates a point. The purpose of technology is not to be new. It is not to complicate your life. It is not to do something never done before. It is not to confound, confuse, or disorient. The purpose of technology is to make your life better than it is. In this case, technology can come from any age, even the ancient world. As the slogan of Lodge pan company says, iron is forever.
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Will we ever again trust the experts to run our lives, pick our leaders, tell us the news we need to know, plan our economy? It’s just not going to happen anytime soon.
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Consider our good fortune. A third of our lives are spent on mattresses. A solid sleep is determinative of a good life. And get this: you didn’t build that mattress. Someone else is working right now for you, in the hope that you will buy. That’s called the market at work: endless progress, a beautiful community of work, ever better quality, ever lower prices.
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Contrary to what the doomsters have been telling us, China’s economy is not on the verge of collapse.
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FORTUNE — Robert Mundell and Allan Meltzer rank among the most influential economists of the past half-century. Mundell, a professor at Columbia University, garnered a Nobel Prize in 1999, in part for his work in defining what he calls “optimum curren …
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It is bad enough that opponents of the free market wrongly blame capitalism for environmental pollution, depressions, and wars. Whatever the failings of their causal theories, at least they are focused on undoubtedly bad things. We have really gone beyond the pale, though, when the market is blamed for something good.
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During the 1992 presidential campaign, former President Clinton’s rallying cry was “It’s the Economy, Stupid.” He sang it to perfection and won the election. Today, the smart politicians (and economists) should realize that “It’s the Money Supply, Stupid.”
READ MORE“Bernanke, give these people air!” by John DeFeo Ron Paul has staked his presidential hopes on a few key issues, among the most prominent being monetary policy. The feisty Texas congressman has had his share of ideological head-butting with Federal Res …
READ MOREArticle and photo originally found at The Wall Street Journal: Opinion Europe Author: Dr. Judy Shelton It can be hard to remember these days, but the International Monetary fund started out as an undeniable force for good. Even as World War II was ragi …
READ MORE“The US economy is headed for a period of higher inflation and lower growth that makes the nation’s debt unappealing when measured against its global competitors, Pimco’s Bill Gross told CNBC. The head of the world’s largest bond firm, with nearly $1.3 …
READ MORE“Bernanke continues to dismiss inflation as a big U.S. economic concern, and the Fed decided last week to keep interest rates between 0.00% and 0.25% “for an extended period.” But U.S. consumers have complained that sky-high gasoline prices are eating …
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