Doug Casey - MUST read bit from Doug Casey on unemployment

From Conversations With Casey:

The government is saying the unemployment is around 10%, but that’s a fraud.

They don’t count things the same way as they did then, not even as they did in the recession of 1982. Furthermore, they should count many government employees among the unemployed, since relatively few of them produce anything that anyone would voluntarily pay for.

I’m not talking about police, garbage collectors, judges, and the like. The market would employ many of them in their current jobs even if the state were to disappear. But many of the apparatchiks filling offices not only don’t serve any useful purpose, but they actively destroy, and prevent the creation of, wealth. These people are worse than just unemployed...


Doug Casey - MUST read bit from Doug Casey on unemployment