The Republican wants to cut taxes on business and on capital gains, which he says would create more wealth.
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Instead, we need to create more wealth in the economy at large.
If the only way to create more wealth was to shed more sweat, then capital was unnatural, the attempt to find fertility where only barrenness could exist.
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And, hardhearted though it may sound, most of the gains from trade and technology alike come from the way they redeploy investment and labour to activities that create more wealth.
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I'd argue that Treasury bills, gold holdings and an ANWR that is off limits to drilling are examples of dead wealth--that is, stored wealth that could create more wealth if put to proper use.
In what sense can a government create jobs or, more broadly, wealth?
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The mass producers of cars destroy more wealth in bad years than they create in good ones.
Facebook is this kind of network: centrally controlled, designed to create wealth, and constantly re-shaped to be yet more engaging.
It is because a stronger dollar signals more investment on the margin flowing into the stock and bond income streams set to create the wealth of tomorrow.
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Income taxes generally do more economic harm because they are a direct penalty on saving, investment and labor that create new wealth.
At more than 20% in 2011, one wonders how much more experimentation with deficit spending will be needed to understand that such schemes merely transfer wealth rather than create it.
My understanding however is that Downing Street and the Treasury are engaged on a more ambitious project, to investigate whether it might be possible to create what might be seen as a British sovereign wealth fund.
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