Tags: money and banking
Martin Wolf: "Lord Turner Thinks the Unthinkable"
February 13th, 2013
in Op Ed, syndication
by Paul Kasriel alerted me in an email this morning to check out Martin Wolf's column today (13 February 2013) in the Financial Times. Wolf's title: "A case to reset basis of monetary policy." The widely read associate editor and chief economics com… more »
Adair Turner and the Emperor's New Clothes
February 10th, 2013
in Op Ed, syndication
by The historic address last week by Adair Turner, head of the UK regulatory agency, the Financial Services Authority, is news of historic importance. Anatole Kaletsky called it the unveiling of the emperor's new clothes. With Mark Carney taking o… more »
Fractional Reserve Banking: The Source of All Evil?
January 18th, 2013
in Op Ed
I'm getting very suspicious of anything which regulators think is "safe" collateral... FRACTIONAL Reserve Banking is not responsible for the bad practice of 'creating money', writes Paul Tustain, founder and CEO of BullionVault. It is a speed limit o… more »
America’s Deceptive 2012 Fiscal Cliff – Part 3
January 15th, 2013
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by Michael Hudson, New Economic Perspectives [Part 1] [Part 2] [...] Quantitative easing as free money creation – to subsidize the big banks The Federal Reserve’s three waves of Quantitative Easing since 2008 show how easy it is to create free m… more »
The Terrifying Danger of the Trillion Dollar Coin
January 9th, 2013
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Written by John Lounsbury To be fair, I have to say almost no one is talking about the basic tenet of the seigniorage proposal. Warren Mosler mentioned it this week, but it probably went right over the head of all but the most serious students of the… more »
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