Stop Confusing Money with Wealth

11/13/2020 Bryce McBride

Useful goods and services, and the productive resources needed to create useful goods and services, are wealth. Money is not wealth, and creating more money without first creating wealth is a big problem.

Original Article: “Stop Confusing Money with Wealth“

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