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Thorsten Polleit

Digitization will undoubtedly bring great improvements and new opportunities for peoples’ lives. But digitization also has a downside.

Frank Shostak

The specter of stagflation is with us again despite Keynesians' claims that a new bout of inflation will lower unemployment. What causes it?

Frank Shostak

Popular economic wisdom says central banks can counter harmful effects of inflation by raising interest rates. Unfortunately, such moves carry their own forms of misallocation of resources and capital.

Manuel Tacanho

Since the early 1960s, African nations have gained political independence from colonial powers, but the monetary colonialism of fiat money continues.

Frank Shostak

Fed chairman Jerome Powell recently claimed they were "targeting" the "neutral" interest rate. The Fed cannot set or even know that rate, for it doesn't come from government authorities.