Are major economies suffering from the deficiency of demand?
byIn his article “The curse of weak global demand”, Financial Times November 18, 2014, the economics columnist Martin Wolf wrote that today’s most important…
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Interview with Martin Wolf on Monetary Reform, Part 2
byMartin Wolf wrote an excellent article earlier this year on monetary reform, which can be found here . Martin’s new book, “The Shifts and the…
Interview with Martin Wolf on Monetary Reform, Part 1
byMartin Wolf wrote an excellent article earlier this year on monetary reform, which can be found here . Martin’s new book, “The Shifts and the…
Currency war means currency suicide
byWhat the media calls a “currency war,” whereby nations engage in competitive currency devaluations in order to increase exports, is really “currency suicide.” National…
Does the United States owe a lot to Bernanke?
byIn his Financial Times article on June 4th the FT columnist Martin Wolf praised Ben Bernanke for saving the US economy and the world…
Poor Tim Harford
by“The world is moving step by step towards a de facto Gold Standard, without any meetings of G20 leaders to announce the idea or…
Push for European integration is politics, not economics
byThroughout the European debt crises, Germany and its allies in the austerity camp have been urged by financial commentators, particularly in the United Kingdom…
Hayek’s neglected truths about credit, capital and the trade cycle
byLast night, I caught up with Martin Wolf’s November programmes for Radio 4 Analysis, which you can find here. He offered a predictable blend…
The Keynesian ant heap
byIn a recent op-ed in the Globe & Mail, Davos Man’s indefatigable mouthpiece for failed, mainstream thinking, Martin Wolf, passed the following verdict on…
Could the world go back to the gold standard?
byMartin Wolf asks “Could the world go back to the gold standard?” During any period of monetary disorder — the 1970s, for example, or…