Merry Christmas from TCC: Treasury Select Committee to examine low interest rates
Next year there will be a parliamentary enquiry into the effects of ultra low interest rates and other mechanisms of radical monetary policy. It…
Read MoreNext year there will be a parliamentary enquiry into the effects of ultra low interest rates and other mechanisms of radical monetary policy. It…
Read MoreDecember 24, 2016 marks the 25th anniversary of the formal end of the Soviet Union as a political entity on the map of the…
Read MoreMarkets have not been slow to see through the hollowness of the European Central Bank’s announced (on December 8) curtailment of the pace of…
Read MoreThe phenomena of ‘Sticky Prices’ (known also as ‘nominal rigidity’, ‘wage-stickiness’ and ‘price-stickiness’) is important in Keynesian thought and macroeconomic thought more broadly. Prices…
Read MoreI recently wrote about how Blockchain could potentially be used to make optional licensure a feasible reality (though I also professed that this was…
Read MoreCentral Banking Global Bond Market Yields are Rising The ECB’s recently announced 6 month extension of its QE programme reminds us that the speed…
Read MoreEmerging market (EM) assets have taken a beating since Donald Trump’s surprise election victory on November 8. EM bond prices are down 4.4 percent,…
Read MoreSource: https://www.alt-m.org/2016/12/01/fed-holding-interest-rates/ ONCE UPON A TIME, when my twin brother and I were tots, our father convinced us that he could make a traffic light…
Read MoreDavid Hume was one of the most prominent of the Scottish Moral Philosophers. He is particularly famous as a philosophical skeptic, who, in his…
Read MoreA fall in the US unemployment rate to 4.6% in November from 4.9% in the month before and 5% in November last year has…
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