Most of all, it can't be repeated enough that housing is a false economic input.

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Taking out demographic factors like covered plan employees living longer after retirement and just looking at overly optimistic economic input assumptions on portfolio returns should be sobering enough.

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It's really for people like my neighbors in a county in Central Idaho who, you know, who will do so much better when this bill is passed because there will be economic input.

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To this day most Americans have been gulled into believing that the Federal Reserve was chartered in 1913 to serve as a last-resort lender to banks that were supposedly an essential economic input.

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While the life-saving innovations wrought by doctors and pharmaceutical companies can't be minimized given that humans themselves are economic capital, health care, far from an economic input, is for the most part pure consumption.

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One argument is that housing's health is somehow a crucial input when it comes to economic growth.

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Trustworthy economic data is a very valuable public good that serves as a useful production input for tons of private businesses.

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In part he believes that the problem is economic institutions: regulatory barriers to entrepreneurship, a financial system that favours insiders, and a high level of input from labour, which tends to be biased towards the status quo.

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