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Daniel Lacalle

Daniel Lacalle, PhD, economist and fund manager, is the author of the bestselling books Freedom or Equality (2020), Escape from the Central Bank Trap (2017), The Energy World Is Flat​ (2015), and Life in the Financial Markets (2014).

He is a professor of global economy at IE Business School in Madrid.

Ranked as one of the top twenty most influential economists in the world in 2016 and 2017 by Richtopia, he holds the CIIA financial analyst title, with a postgraduate degree in higher business studies and a master’s degree in economic investigation. He is a member of the advisory board of the Rafael del Pino Foundation and Commissioner of the Community of Madrid in London.

Lacalle is a regular collaborator with CNBC, Bloomberg TV, BBC, Hedgeye, Seeking Alpha, Business Insider, Mises Institute, and the Epoch Times as well as an occasional consultant for the World Economic Forum, Focus Economics, the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, and other major news publications around the world.

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Private Corporations Don't Cause Price Inflation. Governments Do.

Blog07/27/2023

Governments never curb inflation because they benefit from it. Money creation is never neutral and disproportionately benefits the only monopolistic player in the economy: the state

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Price Inflation Slowed to 3 Percent. That's Still Far Too High.

Blog07/24/2023

Three percent annual price inflation for ten years is a loss of purchasing power of 34 percent in what is already a disastrous inflationary environment. This is not "victory over price inflation."

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US Consumers Are Suffering in a Less than "Robust" Economy

World History

Blog07/18/2023

All the money printing has created a recovery where the United States has seen twenty-six consecutive months of negative real wage growth. We have not seen such a negative recovery for American workers in decades.

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The Truth About Bidenomics: More Debt, More Inflation

Big GovernmentU.S. EconomyInterventionism

Blog07/10/2023

One of the biggest problems of Biden's neo-Keynesian approach to government budgets is that it leaves households with less money in real terms and the “anti-inflation” measures increase debt and inflation.

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Why the Official Data Shows There's No Recession

Central BanksInterventionismMoney and Banking

Blog07/01/2023

As government weight in the economy rises faster, technical recessions may not appear in the official data, but citizens suffer it, nevertheless. 

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