This chart from Real Investment Advice is quite interesting – – it illustrates how $43 trillion in cumulative government “investment” in the economy has yielded $5.7 trillion in real GDP growth. In other words, for every dollar the government “invested”, 13 cents of good came out of it. This goes a long way to explaining why we’re $34 trillion in debt, and it’s only going to get bigger by the second. It’s all for the simulacrum of prosperity.
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The stock market has never been higher. Look out your window. Does the world seem like it’s never been better? Yeah, that’s what I thought.