Print less, but transfer more
Foreign Affairs, September/October 2014
With Mark Blyth: Give central banks the power to transfer cash directly to households
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Review of Martin Wolf’s Shifts & the Shocks
Martin Wolf is one of the great economics journalists of our time. His articles are always insightful, relentlessly logical, and well-written. Martin is the first to admit that he could have been an academic. I...
People don’t want to borrow: the ECB should give them cash
Fortune Magazine, September 2014
With Mark Blyth: The ECB should give up trying to force people to borrow. Give them cash instead.
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Reviews of Eric’s book
Reviews of Money (Routledge)
by Eric Lonergan
"Things they don’t tell you at Davos: a deposit in a bank is an unbacked loan to a highly leveraged financial institution; quantitative easing is the ...
Simon Jenkins decides I’m an American, Guardian (2014)
QE for the people
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In-depth interview with Mark Blyth and Dylan Matthews Vox (2014)
Helicopters, Kalecki, Chinese food, democracy
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Larry Elliot in the Guardian (2014)
Unconventional solutions to the Eurozone crisis
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Interview with Colm O’Mongoin on Irish radio (RTE)
Interview with Colm O'Mongoin on Irish radio (RTE), on reforming the ECB.
RTE interview
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Review of Tim Geithner’s Stress Test: Reflections on Financial Crises
This may be the truest account of the global financial crisis. Geithner is no scintillating story-teller, but his tale is gripping. In 2008 we were on the brink of a depression. Geithner was at the eye of the s...
Thoughts from Reihan Salam National Reviw (2014)
Thoughts from Reihan Salam National Reviw (2014)
A plan for the 21st century
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