This is Austrian School of Economics

Even knowing that the economy is in a recession/depression, it is the kind of headline that grabs your attention: “Recession Worse Than Prior Estimates, Revisions Show” by Bob Willis at Bloomberg.com. “The first 12 months of the US recession,” he writes, “saw the economy shrink more than twice as much as previously estimated, reflecting even bigger declines in consumer spending and housing, revised figures showed.”

By this time I am losing interest, as I suspected as much, and would have been surprised if things had turned out otherwise. I say this with a certain haughty-yet-snotty attitude because the Austrian school of economics is so easy to grasp, so intuitively correct and now so provably correct, that it is easy to anticipate the long-term when a central bank is creating excessive amounts of money and credit, especially when the majority of it is used to expand government spending. Child’s play!

So seeing the future clearly in economics is easy, unlike forecasting other social institutions, like marriage, which I thought meant that I would be happy for the rest of my life, but which meant that I did not remotely understand the full ramifications of such an arrangement that was not, and I emphasize NOT, even hinted at when we were dating, which should be grounds for some kind of legal action so that I can get my life back, instead of having it wasted by her, and the stupid kids, and the stupid relatives, and the stupid neighbors, and the stupid job, and all the stupid stuff you have to do as a result of being so stupid as to say “Goodbye!” to a life of mindless, selfish hedonism in the first place where, with any luck, you would be dead by now, lying in some gutter with a big smile on your stupid face, instead of putting up with spouses, children, neighbors, et al who are all so stupid that they don’t buy gold, silver and oil even after I always deliberately end the “Happy Birthday” song with, “And if you’re not buying gold, silver and oil, then you...
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