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ZeroHedge remains an interesting site, despite their senseless and almost completely unsubstantiated daily rants against Keynesianism (or better, what they think is Keynesianism). This is a must read on the extraordinary levels of income inequalities in the US. We will, as promised earlier provide a theory of why this is one [...]

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Nasty stuff, that. The Fed saved the day, for now, by hinting another round of QE if the economy gets even worse. But what would QE actually achieve under the present circumstances? Very little..

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Even the profits depend on a form of it, called wage deflation…

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Although it had to be a guest post…

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“Recovery is stalled by uncertainty over regulation derailing credit supply…”  Yea, right.. 

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Apart from rolling over sovereign debt, it’s the banks that will have to tap the markets and the sums are staggering…

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One very thorough one on the state of European banks, another one from Simon Johnson, former chief economist of the IMF, on failure of financial reform, and then one on the US debt situation. Turns out it’s private debt, not public debt which is (or at least, should be) the main worry..

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During the credit crisis, we argued that temporary nationalization would be the best option to deal with financial institutions gone wild. Turns out we might have been to moderate..

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Depend on your view of what caused the crisis, vintage Krugman stuff…

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Shows again why financial markets are rife with information asymmetries that the party in the know exploits. Since financial products are often very complex, this problem is rife and the prime reason for regulation..

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