Dr. John Rutledge: Asset-First Economics
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Rethinking Real Rates
Summary: Our topic today is real interest rates. In this post we discuss two ideas from my published papers. The first is that, viewed through the lens of Asset-First Economics, the right way to define and measure real interest rates is the...
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Z.1. Financial Accounts of the United States, Third Quarter 2025
Summary: The most important economic report for investors is not the Employment Report, the CPI report, or the GDP report. It’s the 210 page Z.1 report on the U.S. balance sh...
The Physics Behind Asset-First Economics
Summary: Welcome to Asset-First Economics. In this episode, we discuss two ideas from my published papers. The first is that all economic activities are energy transformations and all economic change is driven by the Second Law of Thermodyn...
Asset-First Economics
In this short (3 minute) video, I review some of the ideas behind my Asset-First Economics framework. I discuss the relationship between the economy’s balance sheet and its P&L (the national income accounts,) and describe the difference in...
Asset-Based Economics, The Back Story
Summary: This post serves three related purposes. First, it gives a short history of Asset-Based Economics, the analytical framework that I have built over the past 45 years to repair what I view as structural weaknesses in standard textboo...
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Itinerant Economist. Road Warrior. CNBC Talking Head. Professor. Thinker. Writer. Safanad Chief Investment Strategist. Far from Equilibrium Economics and Finance, Complex Adaptive Systems. Policy advisor, private equity investor.
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