Money and Banking

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Daniel Lacalle

Monetary policy has gone from being a tool to support fiscal reforms to an excuse for not implementing them.

Kristoffer Mousten Hansen

"Digital cash" is the latest terrible idea from those who want to give central banks more power to meddle in the economy.

Frank Shostak

Deflation is not a matter of animal spirits or consumer expectations. It is the result of earlier creation of money "out of thin air" by central banks and commerical banks. Deflation is the natural result.

Douglas French

Central Banks and the fiat reserve dollar hegemony won’t cede their power to cryptocurrencies easily,  and they're now resorting to a return to precious metals to stave off the threat of individual monetary sovereignty, Bitcoin, and the digital revolution.  

Joakim Book

Central banks' economic models repeatedly and incessantly over-estimate economic growth. We can only speculate as to their motivation.

Brendan Brown

Jerome Powell has lost his faith in a new surge in economic growth. So, it's back to endless stimulus to keep the current cycle going.

Frank Shostak

The "subsistence fund" — created by real savings — is the foundation of true economic growth. But it can be eroded and destroyed by creating money "out of thin air."

Stephan Livera

Assessing cryptocurrencies through a framework of "saleableness" may help us understand why some cryptocurrencies are chosen for speculation above others.

Frank Shostak

Economic theory must have only one purpose — to explain economic activity. However, statistical methods are of no help in this regard.