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Thursday, January 22, 2015

SNB 3-month libor policy rate down again

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They seem to be taking this policy rate down about 0.1% per day or so since the big one-day drop last week the day of the announcement... ...
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DSWright — Taken For Granted At Davos That US Government Run On ‘Legalized Corruption’

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In an interview at Davos with Bloomberg News related to growing concerns about rising wealth inequality and its corruption influence on Ame...
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William F. Engdahl — Russia and China: Watch Out Moody’s, Here We Come!

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Over the past approximate quarter century of so-called economic globalization, Wall Street’s ability to be the home of the only dominant “g...
Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Simon Wren-Lewis — Encouraging dialogue between economists and social scientists

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Encouraging that the mainstream is talking about this. Mainly Macro Encouraging dialogue between economists and social scientists Simon...
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George Friedman — The European Union, Nationalism and the Crisis of Europe

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Europe's crisis is not ultimately an economic one. Everyone — families and nations — has economic problems. The crisis is not war, whic...
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Paul De Grauwe — The sad consequences of the fear of QE

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Since Milton Friedman we have all become monetarists. In order to raise inflation it will be necessary to increase the growth rate of the m...
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Ambrose Evans-Pritchard — Shadow banking now poses top risk to US stability, warns IMF

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Non-financial lending has reached $15 trillion since the crisis and is outside the control of authorities warns the Fund's deputy chief...

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard — EU has squandered last chance to make euro workable, warns Ex-Bundesbank chief

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Forward or forget it. The former head of the German Bundesbank has warned that the European Central Bank (ECB) will not succeed in raisin...

Bill Mitchell — Denmark should abandon its euro peg

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In my soon-to-be-published book on the Eurozone I examined the case of Denmark in some detail in the context of the evolution of the Europe...

Swiss 3-Month LIBOR

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Chart below of recent Swiss policy rate of 3-month libor: So we can see how they really had to step on this rate overnight between th...

Pew: Americans Say Obama is a "Good Man" Who is "Incompetent"

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The American people are correct in their observations again, as usual.  Who said democracy doesn't work... Results discussed here at ...
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Kenneth Thomas — What is Noah thinking?

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Noah Smith put up a post Sunday purporting to show that things aren't so bad for the middle class. Then he immediately shows us a char...
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Henry Blodget — One Of The World's Leading Health Experts Just Revealed The Truth About Healthcare

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The healthcare expert announced that he was here to participate in a session whose goal was to determine whether all the new healthcare inn...
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Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Gus Lubin — These 8 Scales Reveal Everything You Should Know About Different Cultures

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Many people, perhaps especially Americans, underestimate how differently people do things in other countries.   Examples and insights for...

Tass — Russian Church trying to attract regional governors to setting up Orthodox Christian bank

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The chief of Moscow Patriarchate’s department for communications between the Church and Society, Vsevolod Chaplin, has called on the govern...

Tass — Russian Central Bank’s new appointments to help restore market confidence — experts

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Fresh appointments made at Russia’s Central Bank lately amid criticism of the regulator’s measures to defend the ruble are expected to retu...

Dirk Niepelt — Reserves for everyone – towards a new monetary regime?

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Recent experience with the zero lower bound on nominal interest rates, and the use of high-denomination notes by criminals and tax evaders,...
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Ambrose Evans-Pritchard — Former BIS chief economist warns that QE in Europe is doomed to failure and may draw the region into deeper difficulties

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Former BIS chief economist warns that QE in Europe is doomed to failure and may draw the region into deeper difficulties… Mr White said Q...
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Scott Sumner — Ralph Hawtrey

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You may wonder why I chose to name my chair at Mercatus the “Ralph Hawtrey Chair of Monetary Policy.” Here are a few reasons: Money Illus...

Joseph E. Stiglitz — The Politics of Economic Stupidity

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In 1992, Bill Clinton based his successful campaign for the US presidency on a simple slogan: “It’s the economy, stupid.” From today’s pers...
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Simon Wren-Lewis — When central bank losses matter

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To repeat it in a simple but more provocative way: a central bank giving money to people or governments is out of the question, but a centr...

Gavin Kennedy— Flawed Knowledge Of Adam Smith's Political Economy Yields Poor Results

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Hans-Werner Sinn gets Adam Smith egregiously wrong. Sinn is not even in the right century. And that's not all. Professor Hans-Werner Si...

Andrew Lainton — Is State (outside) money a liability, and if so to whom?

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Readers of this blog will now that I have strongly argued that economics must be rebuilt around the accounting constraints of capitalism -...

Stratfor Chief's "Most Blatant Coup in History" Interview Translated in Full — George Friedman interviewed by Kommersant

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This is the translation of the interview George Friedman of Stratfor gave to the Russian newspaper Kommersant in December and has been cite...

Liam Halligan — India Is Crucial to Russia's Pivot East

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The Russian-India bond is nearly as important as the emerging Russsia-China relationship… While there’s been little discussion of the gro...

Russia Insisder — Russia Policy Suggestions by Former PM, Yevgeny Primakov

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Foreign relations: Keep links to west to preserve room for maneuver, but China bonds more important   Arctic Oil: Not profitable at curre...

Russia Direct — Putin's Orthodox conservatives vs. Russia's unorthodox liberals

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It was naïve to imagine that after hundreds of years of cruel monarchy and feudalism, and then after decades of bloody and pointless experi...
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Steven Rosenfeld — Dianne Feinstein's Husband's Real Estate Firm Poised to Make $1 Billion Selling Post Offices

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Today's blood boiler. Washington business model: spouses spot deals with huge upsides. Cronyism and corruption are bipartisan values....

John Helmer — Bagging The Cat — Ksenia Yudaeva, The First Russian Central Bank Governor To Be Sacked In Secret

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Looks like the Russian central bank really doesn’t know what it is doing. As clueless as in the 1997-98 crisis that ended in a needless de...
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Greg Palast — Trojan Hearse: Greek Elections and the Euro Leper Colony

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The horror of austerity is not the consequence of Greek profligacy: it was designed into the euro’s plan from the beginning.   This was ...
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