Economics
The Hope of Affordable Housing – A Modern Fairy Tale
byA Modern Fairy Tale “I’ve got good news and bad news,” says the politician behind the podium – live on tv – sweat…
Why US price inflation remains relatively subdued?
byThe yearly growth rate of the US consumer price index stood at 1.9% in August against 1.7% in July, while the growth rate of…
Altmann scores
by“Black cab drivers to revel in victory over Uber for centuries to come” Headline from The Daily Mash. Baroness Ros Altmann could fairly…
The forthcoming global crisis
byThe global economy is now in an expansionary phase, with bank credit being increasingly available for non-financial borrowers. This is always the prelude to…
Does the central bank determine interest rates?
byAccording to mainstream thinking, the central bank is the key factor in determining interest rates. By setting short-term interest rates, the central bank, it…
Is Chinese growth about to falter?
byThe IMF revised Chinese growth forecasts higher in July – were they premature? Retail sales, industrial output and fixed investment have slowed The Real…
Benn Steil: How We Know Eurozone Monetary Policy is Working Again
byIn 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…
Here we go again…
byAs world stock markets continued to climb to cyclical – if not all – time highs, it became almost the norm for industry talking…
Does the rising price of industrial metals herald the beginning of the next commodity super-cycle?
bySuper-cycle theory In a 2012 paper for the United Nations/DESA – Super-cycles of commodity prices since the mid-nineteenth century – Bilge Erten and José Antonio Ocampo…