Modern Portfolio Theory Is Mistaken: Diversification Is Not Investment
While the creator of modern portfolio theory was awarded a Nobel Prize, that doesn't mean the theory isn’t flawed. In fact, it explains very little about investments.
While the creator of modern portfolio theory was awarded a Nobel Prize, that doesn't mean the theory isn’t flawed. In fact, it explains very little about investments.
For a long time, banks have sought to keep construction loans “on the books” to collect more interest payments. With a recession looming, these long loans are likely to become delinquent.
When an economy suffers a recession, some factors of production, such as labor, become unemployed. Keynesians believe that expanding credit and fiat money will bring back full employment. That's not how an economy works.
While economics textbooks are weak on causes of the Great Depression, American history texts are even worse. It's time for some truth telling.
While the creator of modern portfolio theory was awarded a Nobel Prize, that doesn't mean the theory isn’t flawed. In fact, it explains very little about investments.
Bob comments on the key disputes from his recent debate with Dean Baker, underlying the differences between the Austrian and Keynesian frameworks.
Thanks to Federal Reserve intervention, apartments and apartment buildings have turned into giant malinvestments. Once again, a federal entity intervenes in markets presumably to make them work better, but things end in a crisis.
The Post-Keynesian School of Economics claims that business and personal debt create instability that sinks the U.S. economy. Private debt, however, is not the cause of boom-and-bust cycles.
While some of Tucker Carlson's recent broadside on free-market economics is mistaken, too many so-called Beltway Libertarians have endorsed interventionist policies that have had severe consequences.
One of the biggest and most pervasive myths in modern-day economics is the myth of the omnipotence of the Federal Reserve.