The Fed and asset bubbles
According to the Financial Times from October 18th 2020, senior Federal Reserve officials are calling for tougher financial regulation to prevent the US central…
Read MoreAccording to the Financial Times from October 18th 2020, senior Federal Reserve officials are calling for tougher financial regulation to prevent the US central…
Read MoreAccording to the Nobel Laureate in Economics, Milton Friedman, the key cause of the business cycles is the fluctuations in the growth rate of…
Read MoreFor most commentators, inflation is about general increases in the prices of goods and services. From this, it is established that anything that contributes…
Read MoreFollowing the ideas of John Maynard Keynes and Milton Friedman, many commentators associate economic growth with increases in the demand for goods and services….
Read MoreAccording to the Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT), financial asset prices always fully reflect all available and relevant information, and that any adjustment to…
Read MoreIn the New York Times on September 8, 2020, Paul Krugman suggested that “The CARES Act, enacted in March, gave the unemployed an extra…
Read MoreIn July this year the US trade balance stood at a deficit of $63.6 billion against a deficit of $51 billion in July…
Read MoreIn the natural sciences, a laboratory experiment can isolate various elements and their movements. There is no equivalent in the discipline of economics….
Read MoreWe suggest that projects that government undertakes can be classified as wealth squandering. The fact that the private sector does not undertake these projects…
Read MoreOne of the duties that a central bank is expected to fulfill is to keep the general level of prices in the economy stable….
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