About the trade-off between economic recovery and financial stability In the recent post on gold prices, we maintained that the Fed will raise interest rates far later than most FOMC members admit. This would imply that the years of financial repression will continue and investors will push up asset prices, incl. gold, instead. Many libertarians …
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Helicopter Money against Animal Spirits and our Critique
The newest paper by McCulley and Poszar "Helicopter Money: or how I stopped worrying and love fiscal-monetary cooperation" presents fiscal policy and monetary policy along these two criteria
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The Balance Sheet Recession: UK Q2 Housing Equity Injection Largest Since Q2 2011
The American-Taiwanese economist Richard Koo, is the chief-economist of the Nomura Research Institute. In his theory of the Balance Sheet Recession he distinguishes between the “Yang” phase of the economy and the “Yin” phase (the so-called “balance sheet recession”). In “Yang” times companies want to increase profit and people consume a big part of their pay …
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