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Behind the Scenes at the Central Banks that Created our Modern Monetary System

January 16, 2019

Behind the Scenes at the Central Banks that Created our Modern Monetary System [From the Summer 2018 Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics. A review of How Global Currencies Work: Past, Present, and Future by Barry Eichengreen, Arnaud Mehl, and Livia Chitu, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2018, 250 pp.] The present volume is an engaging […]

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Europe Struggles as the ECB Pretends to Know What It’s Doing

December 12, 2018

Europe Struggles as the ECB Pretends to Know What It’s Doing The European Central Bank (ECB) is rumored to be planning a halt  to its four-year quantitative easing program at the end of this week when it will stop its asset purchases while continuing to keep interest rates at current near-zero levels through 2019. The […]

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Why Public Debt Is a Problem — And Trade Deficits Aren’t

October 28, 2018

Why Public Debt Is a Problem — And Trade Deficits Aren’t As the U.S. trade deficit has been widening for the fourth month running, markets and business experts appear once again bewildered by the events and unsure how to react to them. On the one hand, they had vehemently opposed the increase in trade tariffs […]

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Trade Tariffs Won’t Crash the World Economy, Monetary Policy Will

June 26, 2018

Trade Tariffs Won’t Crash the World Economy, Monetary Policy Will As the Trump administration announces 25% tariffs on over $50bn of Chinese goods, and Europe and China prepare retaliation measures, The Economist concludes that “Rising tariffs are the worst of many threats to the world economy”, because, among other things, “Tariffs temporarily push up inflation, […]

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Keynes in 1939: The Coming War Will Solve our Unemployment Problem

April 2, 2016

Keynes in 1939: The Coming War Will Solve our Unemployment Problem  On the eve of World War II, Keynes delivered the following chilling address on the BBC, talking about the “great experiment” of curing unemployment through war expenditure: J. M. Keynes, When the Day of Peace Comes Two years later to the day, in a lecture delivered shortly […]

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