Necessity is the Mother of Invention – Retirees Desperate Reach for Yield
Ben Bernanke’s creativity inspired a generation of economists and central bankers. QE, ZIRP and NIRP established a new class of economics that is mathematically…
The worst of government poor planning: An economic argument against rent controls
“In many cases rent control appears to be the most efficient technique presently known to destroy a city—except for bombing.”[1] Jeremy Corbyn’s announcement…
Zero Hedge: Schäuble Says Another Financial Crisis Is Coming Due To Spiraling Global Debt, “New Bubbles”
Following the disappointing for Angela Merkel and her CDU German election results, which propelled the populist AfD into Germany’s political establishment with 92 members…
The Hope of Affordable Housing – A Modern Fairy Tale
A Modern Fairy Tale “I’ve got good news and bad news,” says the politician behind the podium – live on tv – sweat…
Benn Steil: How We Know Eurozone Monetary Policy is Working Again
In 2013, I showed that the ECB’s monetary transmission mechanism had broken down in the crisis-hit periphery countries. ECB rate cuts were not being passed on…
Can Switzerland Survive Today’s Assault on Cash and Sound Money?
By Marcia Christoff-Kurapovna “Switzerland will have the last word,” wrote Victor Hugo in the late 19th century. “It possesses one of the most perfect forms…
Benn Steil’s Project Syndicate op-ed, “The Marshall Plan and ‘America First'”
Six months into Donald Trump’s presidency, the White House website still proudly proclaims his administration’s new “America First Foreign Policy.” No longer will the…
Benn Steil: How Fairly Valued is China’s Currency? Big Mac and Mini Mac Square Off Again.
The “law of one price” holds that identical goods should trade for the same price in an efficient market. But how well does…
Simple and Meaningful Ways to Change American Health Care
Ram Nagarajan is an MBA graduate from the University of Chicago who believes in individual liberty, limited government and a market based approach to…
Zero Hedge: Fed Chair Janet Yellen Warns Congress US Debt Trajectory Is Unsustainable
During her testimony this morning, Fed Chair Janet Yellen urged Congress to take into account the growth trajectory of the federal debt when making decisions…