Dr Frank Shostak – Page 12 – The Cobden Centre

Economics7 April 21<6 April 21

Why loose monetary policies cannot set real economic growth?

By Dr Frank Shostak Between January 1970 and December 2020 on average changes in money supply preceded by 14 months changes in real economic…

Economics26 March 21<22 March 21

By Dr Frank Shostak After climbing to 12.2% in April last year the yearly growth rate of combined commercial bank real estate, consumer and…

Economics15 March 21<15 March 21

By Dr Frank Shostak For most commentators economic stability refers to an absence of excessive fluctuations in key economic data such as real gross…

Economics12 March 21<8 March 21

By Dr Frank Shostak According to John Maynard Keynes, The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are…

Economics24 February 21<23 February 21

By Dr Frank Shostak By some theories such as the Modern Monetary Theory (MMT), money originated on account of the government decree. Money according…

Economics19 February 21<15 February 21

By Dr Frank Shostak At the end of January, the yearly growth rate of our measure of US money supply (AMS) closed at 76.7%…

Economics10 February 21<8 February 21

According to some commentators such as Nobel Laureate in Economics Paul Romer, technical knowledge is key to economic growth. We hold that if this…

Economics1 February 21<1 February 21

On January 21 2021, the US President Joe Biden, through an executive order announced an increase in workers minimum wage from $7.25 per hour…

Economics25 January 21<25 January 21

By Dr Frank Shostak Most economists hold that a growing economy requires a growing money stock, on the grounds that growth gives rise to…

Economics20 January 21<19 January 21

By Dr Frank Shostak A common conception is that the central bank is a key factor in the determination of interest rates. On this…