Money growth and inflation – is there a connection?
byAccording to many mainstream economists, a lack of good correlation between the monetary growth and the growth rate of various price indexes casts doubt…
Economics
The Fed Is Tightening More Than It Realizes
byby Benn Steil and Benjamin Della Rocca at CFR https://www.cfr.org/blog/fed-tightening-more-it-realizes Before the 2008 collapse of Lehman Brothers, the Fed’s balance sheet stood at $925 billion—mostly U.S. Treasury securities. After…
Easy monetary policy and the pattern of consumption
byWith meagre resources at his disposal, an individual is likely to allocate these resources i.e. his wealth towards essentials such as food, clothing…
Coffee Sellers Are Not Fundamentally Different from Banks
byBy Joakim Book With the 2007-8 financial crisis came a splendid alphabetical soup of central bank interventions to stimulate financial markets, lower interest rates, provide…
The psychology of systemic consensus
byWe are all too familiar with established views rejecting change. It has nothing to do with the facts. Officialdom’s mind is often firmly closed…
What is the relation between supply and demand for money?
byFor most economists there is the need to keep the so-called economy along the path of a stable economic growth and a stable…
Events
by“Events, dear boy, events.” Alleged response by the British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, when asked by a journalist what is most likely to blow…
How are Chinese stocks responding to tariffs with the US and a slowdown in Asian growth?
byDespite US tariffs, China’s September trade balance with the US reached a record high A number of China’s Asian neighbours have seen a deceleration…
Fireworks
by“A key prediction of traditional economics.. is that the economy as a whole must at some point reach equilibrium – a prediction made by…