Euro crisis II
Euro crisis II has started. The good news is that we have been here before, so we have learnt some lessons, the bad news is the that the underlying challenge is far greater: Italy - the likely epicentre of th...
EPICs v taxes
EPIC debates: a reply to The Economist’s Free Exchange (more…)...
The wrong chapter of the textbook
Climate policy: where economics went wrong
Regular readers of this blog will be aware of a twelve month hiatus since I last posted anything. There is a good reason. Corinne Sawers, a sustainability expert, and ...
Pandemania
When will the GameStop?
It is worth reflecting on the first major panic on the New York Stock Exchange in 1901. On that occasion two magnates, James Hill and Edward Harriman, one supported by Standard Oil, the ...
QE is debt reduction
QE is not a liability transformation - it is debt reduction
The remuneration of bank reserves has been a source of significant analytical confusion among economists. This arcane technicality matters far more t...
Marx has the last laugh
I cannot think of a better interlocutor than Chris Dilow. He raises another set of interesting questions in his reply to my reply. I am in danger of completely forgetting our original divergence of thought, but...
Angrynomics: a reply to Chris Dillow
Chris Dillow writes perhaps the most interesting economics blog I know. Its scope is considerable, and despite his declaration of bias - he self-identifies as a ‘marxist’ - he is typically empirical. His recent...
Policy needs to pivot post-lockdown
Post-lockdown the economy will need a different kind of stimulus
The role of monetary and fiscal policy during lockdown was to sustain household and corporate cashflows in the face of an intentional freezing o...
Helicopter money as Covid response
Here are my slides from the Rebuilding Macro workshop on helicopter money....
Macro policy proposals – immediacy is the metric
Policy response (updated)
Tax rebates for corporates & households, zero interest rates on mortgage and corporate loan refinancing, no debt capital repayment, targeted lending & QE, dual rates, yield cappin...