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    Earning a living, investing for retirement, and understanding how world events impact our living standard.

    Deflation and Falling Energy Prices

    Robert Hamill 16 Dec 201428 Apr 2023Leave a comment

    Declining gasoline, diesel, and petrochemical prices help the non-energy economy grow, boosting activity that 90% of the GDP that is not in the energy sector.

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    Creative Destruction and the Social Contract
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    Creative Destruction and the Social Contract

    Robert Hamill 23 Aug 201428 Nov 20241 Comment

    Financially arranged consolidation is not creative destruction. It is the transfer of assets without pension responsibility

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    Gas Price Inflation
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    Gas Price Inflation

    Robert Hamill 4 Feb 201428 Apr 2023Leave a comment

    In Twilight Zone episode, gas is 32.9 cents/gal. Now it's 10 times higher. What's the inflation rate?

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    Minimum Wage Boosts GDP
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    Minimum Wage Boosts GDP

    Robert Hamill 12 Nov 201317 Jun 2024Leave a comment

    More of the worker’s income goes into economic activity, increasing GDP while the owners build their savings.

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    Aggregate Effects of the Top 1% Earners
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    Aggregate Effects of the Top 1% Earners

    Robert Hamill 28 Sep 201310 Apr 20232 Comments

    With 93% of income growth being taken by the Top 1%, the salaries of workers and lower level managers are barely growing, so the nation’s…

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    Class Warfare and Status Quo
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    Class Warfare and Status Quo

    Robert Hamill 27 Sep 201314 Oct 20241 Comment

    If unrest and riots are quelled without adjustments in societal and economic reality, they will reoccur—like earthquakes which always has us wondering, "Is this the…

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    Aggregate Effects in the National Economy
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    Aggregate Effects in the National Economy

    Robert Hamill 26 Sep 201330 May 2022Leave a comment

    Increased consumption by retained minimum wage workers boosts the economy.

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    Design without a Designer
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    Design without a Designer

    Robert Hamill 19 Apr 201326 Jan 2025Leave a comment

    Our very, complex economic system has a design without a designer.

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    Grand Pursuit by Sylvia Naser
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    Grand Pursuit by Sylvia Naser

    Robert Hamill 5 Jan 201230 May 2022Leave a comment

    Central banks did not originate the economic boom-or-bust cycle.

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    Caveat Citizen
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    Caveat Citizen

    Robert Hamill 14 Aug 201130 May 20222 Comments

    Now the corporations are free To be great citizens

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