How the Economy Really Works: Savings, Investing, Consuming and Market Distortions

How the Economy Really Works: Savings, Investing, Consuming and Market Distortions

A primer on how the economic engine works through coordination between savers, investors, consumers, producers, governments and banks. How hoarding and unfair competition can lead to economic distortions.

Topics covered include:

  • How spending and saving are connected including the paradox of thrift
  • How borrowing money can lead to higher income and savings and potentially to bubbles
  • How hoarding differs from investing and why too much hoarding can deprive businesses of capital
  • How lightbulbs, grocery stores, and kitchen appliances could be examples of unfair competition and planned obsolescence.
  • What role do we play as participants in this coordinated economic dance?


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Show Notes

Wait, Is Saving Good or Bad? The Paradox of Thrift—The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

Rents: How Marketing Causes Inequality by Gerrit De Geest—Beccaria Books

FTC Challenges Kroger’s Acquisition of Albertsons—Federal Trade Commission

The Lifespan of Large Appliances Is Shrinking by Rachel Wolfe—The Wall Street Journal

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222: Why We Overpay and How It Contributes To Income Inequality


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