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Operation Helicopter: Could Free Money Help the Euro Zone?
Operation Helicopter: Could Free Money Help the Euro Zone?
It sounds at first like a crazy thought experiment: One morning, every resident of the euro zone comes home to find a check in their mailbox worth over €500 euros ($597) and possibly as much as €3,000. A gift, just like that, sent by the European Central Bank (ECB) in Frankfurt.
The scenario is less absurd than it may sound. Indeed, many serious academics and financial experts are demanding exactly that. They want ECB chief Mario Draghi to fire up the printing presses and hand out money directly to the people.
The logic behind the idea is that recipients of the money will head to the shops, helping to turn around a paralyzed economy in the common currency area. In response, companies would have to increase production and hire more workers, leading to both economic growth and a needed increase in prices because of the surge in demand.
ECB Has Lost Control
Currently, the inflation rate is barely above zero and fears of a horror deflation scenario of the kind seen during the Great Depression in the United States are haunting the euro zone. The ECB, whose main task is euro stability, has lost control.
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And The Person Responsible For Japan’s Economic Endgame Is… Paul Krugman | Zero Hedge
And The Person Responsible For Japan’s Economic Endgame Is… Paul Krugman | Zero Hedge.
There are two words that should strike fear in the hearts of any rational-thinking citizen of the world – Paul Krugman. Wondering why? As Alhambra’s Jeff Snider notes, we already know of at least one respect where Krugman (as a stand-in at least for the Keynesian perspective that is somehow still widely shared, especially in the orthodox economist class) has impacted ‘stimulus’ activity, Sweden. And now his appearance in Japan enabled what Japanese economists call a “historic meeting,” as Bloomberg reportsthat Abe met with the Nobel-prize winner for 40 minutes who “helped the prime minister make up his mind,” that delaying the fiscally-responsible tax-hikes was the right thing to do (and increasing QQE) or Japan “wouldn’t escape deflation.”Mission Accomplished… and if it fails, moar will be needed and ‘capitalism’ will be blamed.
As Bloomberg reports, with a December deadline approaching, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was considering whether to go ahead with a 2015 boost to the consumption levy. Evidence was mounting that the world’s third-largest economy was struggling to shake off the blow from raising the rate in April, which had triggered Japan’s deepest quarterly contraction since the global credit crisis…
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Keynesian Dogma – Garbage In, Garbage Out « The Burning Platform
Keynesian Dogma – Garbage In, Garbage Out « The Burning Platform.
Janet Yellen Bemoans “Lack of Fiscal Support”
Fed chair Janet Yellen studied under the Keynesian James Tobin, whose name is nowadays best known for being associated with a tax. It should therefore not come as a big surprise that she supports Keynesian dogma regarding government intervention in what is left of the market economy.
As Reuters reports:
“U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen on Friday called on politicians across the globe to get their fiscal houses in order during good times to prop up economies during times of turmoil.
In remarks to a symposium in Paris, Yellen blamed part of the slow global economic recovery on weak government support.
She took aim at both U.S. political gridlock after the 2007-2009 financial crisis and the austere policies across Europe as the region struggles with persistently low inflation.
The crisis led major central banks to deploy unconventional tools to spur recovery. For its part, the Fed cut interest rates to zero and more than quadrupled its balance sheet to $4.4 trillion through three rounds of bond buying, eliciting howls of protest from some politicians who feared the monetary largesse would spark an unwanted inflation. It announced an end to its latest asset purchase program just last week.
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oftwominds-Charles Hugh Smith: Anatomy of a Failing State: Japan’s Budgetary Nightmare
oftwominds-Charles Hugh Smith: Anatomy of a Failing State: Japan’s Budgetary Nightmare.
Once the global economy rolls over into contraction, the tide will recede and Japan’s fiscal and monetary bankruptcy will become painfully apparent.
What do you get after 25 years of stagnation and Keynesian Cargo Cult monetary stimulus? A failing state, that’s what. The intellectually bankrupt ruling Elites of Japan have no solution for Japan’s slow stagnation, as real reform would diminish their wealth and power.
But reality isn’t as immobile as failed policies. While Japan’s ruling Elites fiddled away the past 25 years propping up sclerotic cartels and phantom loans, Japan’s population has aged and its primary sources of wealth creation have atrophied.
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