ECB Policy-Failure On Display: European Businesses Aren’t Planning To Invest
byThere once was a time (at least in banished Austrian economic circles) when low market interest rates signaled to entrepreneurs a positive environment in…
May, 2016
Members of the European Parliament just voted to introduce a bitcoin and cryptocurrency regulator
byIt could have been significantly worse. In the words of Jakob von Weizsacker MEP, who drafted the resolution, and whom I had the pleasure of…
Regulation – the hidden curse
byRegulations are nearly always introduced with the best intentions. In financial services, they aim to stop unscrupulous brokers and banks from ripping off the…
Academic Skulduggery – How Ivory Tower Hubris Wrecks your Life
bySource: http://bawerk.net/2016/05/23/academic-skullduggery-how-ivory-tower-hubris-wrecks-your-life/ In the 1970s economists started to incorporate rational expectations into their models and not long after the seminal Kydand & Prescott (1977) article…
Fed Suppression, Long Term Economic Repression
bySource: http://bawerk.net/2016/05/19/fed-suppression-long-term-economic-repression/ The Federal Reserve really wants to raise rates, but they do not dare as the consequence of interrupting an unprecedented level of capital…
Why Deutsche Bank Thinks A Fed Rate Hike Would Unleash A Stock Market Crash
byFollowing this week’s FOMC Minutes shows, which violently repriced June rate hike odds from 4% to 30% and July from 20% to 50%, the…
The levee gonna break – Debt, demographics, productivity and financialization
byIn a March paper from the Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank – The Lasting Damage from the Financial Crisis to U.S. Productivity – the…
Alleviating Inequality through enabling a Choice of Monies
byAlthough the myriad of benefits that is entailed through a choice of monies (unemployment, trade, credit market and so on) has often been exposited,…
Governments Create Monopolies And Cause Worker Exploitation, Not Free Markets
byThe world is threatened with a renewed wave of anti-capitalism and anti-business sentiments and policies. Many who cheered the demise of Soviet communism in…
Raghuram Rajan: “The Ammo Is Almost Gone”
bySource: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-05-16/mutiny-among-magic-people-india-central-banker-admits-ammo-almost-gone The self-described “magic people” who “give to the markets” are facing a mutiny this morning as Raghuram Rajan, the head of the Indian…