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U.S. Breakeven Comments
I just refreshed my favourite U.S. breakeven inflation chart (above), and I was surprised by how placid pricing has been. This article gives a few…
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Degrowth Versus Sustainability
I was on the “Steve Keen and Friends Livestream” very recently, and one of the topics that came up is “Degrowth.” I had earlier made some comment about…
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Pleading The Fifth On The Fourteenth
I am currently working on another article, but given the clamour about the debt ceiling, I just want to repeat my stance that I guess a “last minute…
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On Steve Keen & Friends Livestream
I will be on the Steve Keen & Friend Livestream tomorrow (May 20) at 12 noon Eastern Standard Time. (Link to the stream above.) There is no set topic…
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When Will The Russian Invasion Of Ukraine End?
I see a lot of commentary on the war in Ukraine that is fundamentally misguided. As usual, I do not have a forecast answer to the question in the title…
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Money Multiplier Mudslinging
https://twitter.com/IrvingSwisher/status/1657812041812303876?s=20 There was a small kerfuffle on Twitter created by Olivier Blanchard regarding the…
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"Greedflation" Debate
I have started writing a section for my book on the “greedflation” debate: are corporations jacking up prices to pad profit margins? Since I wanted my…
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Will The Fed Keep Reacting With A Lag To Lagging Data?
(I have broken Betteridge’s law of headlines — the answer to the question in the headline is “yes.”) I would guess that this week’s Fed hike will be…
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Another Bank Bites The Dust
First Republic Bank was forced into a take over by J.P. Morgan Chase, and was yet another Californian victim of bad banking risk management. My bias was…
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April 2023
Reserve Currency Blues
The “Demise of the Dollar” is a long-running story in hard money circles, and has gotten a recent push by the growth of transactions in the Chinese yuan…
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The Canadian "Fiscal Crisis Of 1994-5"
I have now arrived at the part of the preparation for my panel that I have dreaded: the Great Canadian Fiscal Crisis of 1994-1995. This is an event that…
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Central Bank Independence As A Secret Ingredient?
Following up on my comments on the paper: “Deficits Do Matter: A Review of Modern Monetary Theory” by Farah Omran and Mark Zelmer, I am going to do a…
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