Benn Steil: Housing Market Points to Recession By Election Day
Looking back at the years preceding the 2008 financial crisis, a critical warning sign was the surging gap between the growth in home prices…
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A Wealth Tax Consumes Capital
It seems one cannot make a name for one’s self on the Left, unless one has a proposal to tax wealth. Academics like Tomas…
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How the GDP framework creates the illusion that by means of money pumping the central bank can grow an economy
In response to a weakening in the yearly growth rate of key economic indicators such as industrial production and real gross domestic product…
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The Disaster of Negative Interest Policy
Those who had hoped that things could not get worse with the monetary policy of the European Central Bank (ECB) have been proven wrong….
Read MoreDo banks require savings to accommodate demand for lending?
There is an emerging view held by many commentators that it is banks and not the central bank that are key for the expansion…
Read MoreThe Ghost of Failed Banks Returns
Last week’s failure in the US repo market might have had something to do with Deutsche Bank’s disposal of its prime brokerage to BNP,…
Read MoreHow fractional reserve banking contributes to increases in money supply
Some commentators consider fractional reserve banking as a major vehicle for the expansion in the money supply growth rate. What is the nature…
Read MoreHow Is Negative Interest Possible?
Germany has recently joined Switzerland in the dubious All Negative Club. The interest rate on every government bond, from short to 30 years, is…
Read MoreCan boom-bust cycles emerge in a free market economy where gold is money?
Following the Austrian Business Cycle Theory (ABCT), the boom-bust cycle emerges in response to a deviation in the market interest rate from the…
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The shape of the yield curve and the state of the economy
On Wednesday August 14 2019, participants in financial markets were shocked by the news that the differential between the yield on the 10-year…
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