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• Banks’ Cheap Money is Economic ‘Poison’
By Ron Robins. First published March 10, 2011, in his weekly economics and finance column at alrroya.com Developed world bankers continue to proclaim that enforced low interest rates—cheap money—will...
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• India, Ancient Economic Behemoth, to Overtake China
By Ron Robins. First published March 20, 2011, in his weekly economics and finance column at alrroya.com When Europe was going through its murderous medieval period, India was an economic behemoth...
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• America’s Economic Rebirth
By Ron Robins. First published March 24, 2011, in his weekly economics and finance column at alrroya.com A rebirth of the American spirit and economy is probable. It would be founded on huge reductions...
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• Short Term Gain, Long Term Pain
By Ron Robins. First published March 31, 2011, in his weekly economics and finance column at alrroya.com Unacknowledged as key causes of most developed countries’ growing and unsustainable debt is...
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• Eliminate Corporate Taxes and Spur Economic Growth
By Ron Robins. First published April 7, 2011, in his weekly economics and finance column at alrroya.com What should overly indebted developed country governments do to spur economic activity and reduce...
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• Financial and Economic Modelling – A Waste of Time?
By Ron Robins. First published April 21, 2011, in his weekly economics and finance column at alrroya.com “…both risk models and econometric models… are still too simple to capture the full array of...
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• Proposed Healthcare Surgery Won’t Heal America
By Ron Robins. First published May 18, 2011, in his weekly economics and finance column at alrroya.com Yes, surgery is required for the US government’s Medicare (healthcare) program. But before the...
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• The Economic Statistic US Elites Keep ‘Hush-Hush’
By Ron Robins. First published June 6, 2011, in his weekly economics and finance column at alrroya.com It is a simple statistic that continues to warn of huge economic problems ahead for the US. Some...
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• Americans Say it’s Still a Recession—or Worse!
By Ron Robins. First published June 1, 2011, in his weekly economics and finance column at alrroya.com Why don’t Americans believe Mr. Ben Bernanke, the chairman of the US Federal Reserve, that the...
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• Free Markets Need Higher Consciousness of Participants
By Ron Robins. Re-published October 20, 2012. First published March 3, 2011, in his weekly economics and finance column at alrroya.com Governments are repeatedly asked to create laws and regulations to...
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• U.S. Health Care: Resolving the Quagmire
The following excerpts are from chapter one of a book in progress by Ron Robins, tentatively titled, Resolving America’s Economic Quagmire… individuals gaining inner fulfillment is the key*...
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• Dubious Positive Biases in Revised U.S. Economic Statistics
Why do most of the methodologically revised U.S. economic statistics tend to create a picture of a more positive looking economy? Do these revised statistics really give a better—or...
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• Positive ‘Spin’ Grows U.S. Economy… But For How Long?
‘Spin’ — “Political hyperbole, especially when intentionally misleading” — The Online Slang Dictionary American political and economic elites are forever spinning the idea that self-sustaining economic...
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• Wall St. Wins a Round in a Dodd-Frank Fight
“Wall Street won when the House of Representatives on Thursday passed a broad spending bill that contained a provision that rolls back a rule affecting derivatives, the financial product that helped...
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• If Success Was Measured in Social Progress, Which Nation Would Win?
“So where, you may be wondering, does the United States fall in all of this? Spoiler alert: not among the top 10. The United States ranks 16th, just ahead of Belgium and just behind the Republic of...
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• Has the Global Trade Engine Stalled? (Goods, perhaps. Services, maybe not)
“For the first time in nearly half a century, trade between nations has grown slower than the global economy. Some economists believe trade may be at a peak, at least for a while. “Peak Trade” suggests...
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• Should we print money to fund green investments?
“GQE [Green Quantitative Easing] builds on the logic of QE, but fundamentally changes its objectives. In a GQE programme, new money is created – literally out of thin air – and used to buy bonds, but...
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• Stronger Environmental Policies Do Not Hurt Economic Growth
“Studies of individual environmental laws, such as the Clean Air Act, have found that they have little impact on employment and productivity… Now, there is hard data showing that more, and more...
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• Currency Battle Is Tethered to Obama Trade Agenda
“If members of Congress are to be believed, unless the president’s trade negotiator includes strict, enforceable prohibitions on policies to intentionally hold down the value of currencies, any...
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• Can income redistribution help fight depression?
“The average poor person has about two and a half times the level of painful emotions as the average rich person… the decline in painful emotions with [increasing] income, both on average and at the...
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