Norway Can’t Live as ‘Rentier’ Off Oil Wealth, PM Solberg Says
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-30/norway-can-t-live-as-rentier-off-oil-wealth-pm-solberg-says
Submitted March 31, 2017 at 12:55PM by readerseven
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Credit Suisse Offices Raided In Multiple Tax Probes: Gold Bars, Paintings, Jewelry Seized
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-03-31/credit-suisse-offices-raided-multiple-tax-probes-gold-bars-paintings-jewelry-seized
Submitted March 31, 2017 at 10:34AM by jomamagain
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Inflation reaches Fed target for first time in nearly five years
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/inflation-accelerates-again-in-february-to-fastest-pace-since-early-2012-2017-03-31
Submitted March 31, 2017 at 01:21PM by PostNationalism
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Home Cash-Out Refi’s Surged More From 2013-16 Than From 2003 To 2006
http://fiscalpost.com/2017/03/home-cash-out-refis-surged-more-from-2013-16-than-from-2003-to-2006/
Submitted March 31, 2017 at 12:30PM by housoilers
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The Amazing Amount Of State Debt Outstanding
http://monetarywatch.com/2017/03/dont-forget-amazing-amount-state-debt-outstanding/
Submitted March 31, 2017 at 11:57AM by Buckiiize
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The Economist says Harmful efficiency should be taxed
https://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21719799-it-time-recognise-value-bit-hassle-case-efficiency-tax
Submitted March 31, 2017 at 09:31AM by PostNationalism
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The Cost of Trump’s Wall Compared to the Programs He’s Proposing to Cut
https://www.propublica.org/article/the-cost-of-trumps-wall-compared-to-the-programs-hes-proposing-to-cut
Submitted March 31, 2017 at 07:27AM by ReligiousFreedomDude
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How is money created? Aka, Modern Economic Theory
Lately I've been having a fascination with political systems and theories but there is one aspect I can't wrap my head around;
How/where is a nation's money/currency created?
When I was younger I've read both Das Kapital and The Wealth of Nations. Lately I've been attempting to read about Keynesian Economics, fractional-reserve banking, monetary policies, how central banks use interest rates to control inflation/deflation.
I can't get to the "core" of the issue though, I just don't seem to fully understand it. Maybe I need a 5-year economic degree to really understand it but I'm hoping an economical genius here can give me a "crash course"?
I do understand it in the physical sense; the government has printing machines that makes money. Banks get some of these money and it's distributed to people and corporations.
What I don't understand is more practical.
Example 1: Say I work at a lumber mill. I do a job, the company pays me. The company gets their money from selling lumber to another company. This company is a mining company, they use the lumber to make supports in their mines. They pay their workers. Their money comes from selling bauxite to a foreign company. This money comes from another country's economy – that company pays workers with money they get either from selling something or from their government. This money again comes from taxes in some way or another.
Example 2: I work at an IT support company. I get payed by my company. The company has a contract with the government to support and deliver IT infrastructure. The government agency gets their money from the national budget which is funded by taxes. Those taxes comes from workers which gets their money from their pay which comes from where?
Is the government (which is the people) essentially just "leeching" off itself in an endless circle? What is the "point of origin", where does it stop?
Then there is another huge issue which just confuses me even more: fractional-reserve banking. As far as I understand this is widespread in most westernized countries today. My understanding is that banks can "reuse" the same physical cash to give out many loans. Which essentially means they "create" digital money without physical currency? Is this just some elaborate "legitimized" scam?
This chain of thought started because I was thinking about Universal Basic Income.
I was thinking to myself; so how would a country get the money required for a UBI? I guess taxes, but could they not just "print" the money? But if you print the money couldn't you just create some utopian nation where every citizen gets a billion dollars/pounds/kroner per year and everyone is rich? Then I was starting to think why this can't work, and hence it led me to my current state of my brain hurting from thinking too much…
Essentially is UBI just taking money from some people or some corporations to give money to all citizens?
Submitted March 31, 2017 at 05:53AM by the–dud
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Malaysia on Trump’s list of ‘trade cheats’
http://www.thestar.com.my/business/business-news/2017/03/31/malaysia-on-trumps-list-of-trade-cheats
Submitted March 31, 2017 at 06:17AM by readerseven
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The robot debate is over: the jobs are gone and they aren’t coming back
https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2017/mar/31/the-robot-debate-is-over-the-jobs-are-gone-and-they-arent-coming-back
Submitted March 31, 2017 at 06:06AM by PostNationalism
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Chet Wang 