Common Sense Soapbox
About this show
Short videos with a punchy, comedic tone and entertaining Socratic characters taking on trending issues and important concepts from a classical liberal perspective, written & animated by Seamus Coughlin.
How to Make a Bad Economy WORSE
March 1, 2022
Our intrepid heroes have found that thanks to Ron's lockdown, their economy has gone from bad to worse, but as usual the man in charge is focused on one solution: Creating more money.
Unfortunately, creating more money isn't the same thing as creating more goods & service, and now the island is suffering from hyperinflation.
As it happens, there are a lot of people in the real world who think that more money is always the answer as well. Check out some of the links in the description to find out why that's not such a good idea.
CREDITS:
Written by Seamus Coughlin & Sean W. Malone
Research by Tyler Brandt
Produced & Edited by Sean W. Malone
Storyboards By:
Sarjex
Caleb Black
Animation By:
Seamus Coughlin
Jaime Velasquez
Caleb Black
Amazil
LINKS:
https://youtu.be/y0gGyeA-8C4
https://www.fte.org/teachers/teacher-resources/lesson-plans/rslessons/the-magic-of-markets-trade-creates-wealth/
https://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/MoneySupply.html
https://www.econlib.org/library/Topics/College/inflation.html
https://fee.org/articles/the-causes-of-inflation/
https://fee.org/articles/inflation/
https://fee.org/articles/inflation-in-one-page/
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/18/business/economy/fed-inflation-stimulus-biden.html
https://mises.org/library/how-all-extra-stimulus-money-could-lead-price-inflation
MMT:
https://www.investopedia.com/modern-monetary-theory-mmt-4588060
https://fee.org/articles/modern-monetary-theory-isnt-economics/
https://fee.org/articles/modern-monetary-theory-is-a-recipe-for-hyperinflation/