Growth At All Cost?
The new government has announced a wave of deregulation. There is a simple reason for the increase in regulation, which is the increase in complexity of modern economies. Markets are […]
What caused the financial crisis?
In the curious case of the US, where the truth is ever more compromised by ideology, there are different narratives. But the evidence is pretty clear-cut..
The new top dog in policy thinking
Rationally using our non-rational characteristics. His ideas are not new though (much is owed to behavioural economics and social psychology), but it’s a good read nevertheless..
The holy grail of macroeconomics?
Say ‘balance sheet recession.’ The one book everyone should read to understand the present predicament. Only by actually understanding what’s going on can proper policies be evaluated.
Yes, that Chinese stimulus didn’t work either..
It only saved the world..
Google’s overseas tax rate turns out to be…. 2.4%.
Them loopholes, they are BIG… Bermuda triangles, Double Irish, Double Dutch.. Double disappear..
The UK experiment off to a rocky start
While the French are going beserk over a rather modest pension reform, the British keep a stiff upper lip, uuh, purse in the face of unprecedented public sector cuts…
The right diagnoses of the US economy
Interesting reed, but the right diagnosis is only the start, we have to have the right fix (if available) as well…
Primer on fiscal policy: it works, in the 1930s, in Japan, and now
Surprise surprise. However, quantitative easing (QE), the main alternative, isn’t so promising.
A really necessary lesson
Hit’s a couple of favourite Voodoo economic thesis at once. We cannot recommend this article enough (especially at the people from ZeroHedge)..