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Liberal - Conservative

Liberal - Conservative Comparison

Government Deficits and Debts

Ronald Reagan's Great Insight:
Deficits and Debts don't matter
Was he right? (read the Smith family story)

The Invention of Money
in the Smith family

How money is created.
ending in a Gaggle of Whirling Dervishes
A Parable to explain Money and Debt

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Money and the Money System

Four quick quizzes by William F. Hummel.  Each question has immediate answers.

U.S. Currency         Money and Banking

Government Finance         Long Term Investing

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Understanding Money

Understanding Money and the U.S. monetary system is the theme of William F. Hummel's instructive pages. Money and credit are not easy subjects to master. If you are seriously interested you will find the articles here very helpful, with points that may surprise you.

Financial Fundamentalism

Fifteen Fatal Fallacies of Financial Fundamentalism
A Disquisition on Demand Side Economics
William Vickrey -- October 5, 1996
Vickrey, a highly-respected Nobel economist, explains such fallacies as generational accounting.

Inequality of Wealth and Income

An Inquiry into Real-World Economics
a picture for all minds

The Moral Minimum Income
who earned It? who Gets It

Government Bookkeeping

Three Pictures of the Federal Government
political distortions to deceive

The Paradox of Bigger(?) Government
it's not what it seems

Social Security

How Government Trust Funds Really Work

Mark Adkins tells us what to do: "the next time you hear politicians -- of either party -- discussing "saving the trust funds from bankruptcy," write a letter to those politicians accusing them of ignorance or deceit."


Logic in economics

Achronic logic leads us into errors
The Fallacy of the Missing Subjunctive

The odds ain't the only thing in winning
Two Criteria of Poker and Catastrophism

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