Although I suspect that the majority of the people reading this didn’t go as overboard this year on Christmas as they have in the past. Anyway, Samizdata (via Ed Driscoll, in reaction to what was an atypically dumb UK Times article):
It may seem a Scrooge-like message for this time of year to point out that you cannot spend money that you don’t have; businesses cannot invest money that has not been already saved, and that interest rates must reflect the balance of supply and demand for savings. The “Austrian” economic insight that money is a claim on resources, and that two people cannot hold the same claim on a resource at the same time, needs to be relentlessly rammed home.
Because the alternative, of course, is to have objective reality do it for you. And the thing about objective reality? It’s rarely gentle.
Moe Lane
Crossposted to Moe Lane.
Not a fan of the Austrians. They also want to deny Americans access to foreign resources, which we have access to claims on.