We are nowhere near the zero bound
We need more cash, not less.
Many economists just assume that central banks have hit “the zero bound” on interest rates and that conventional policy is thereby exhausted. Take Ken Rogoff’s bizarre proposal as a...
Interview in Vox
Interview with Dylan Matthews of Vox, on this and other matters including Kalecki, Chinese food and democracy ...Vox...
Foreign Affairs: print less, transfer more
In Foreign Affairs, Mark Blyth and I map out a plan to end recessions and broaden equity ownership - without raising taxes. Read the full article here....
Talk at IIEA
Can QE save the Eurozone? Talk at the IIEA in Dublin IIEA part I...
Talk at the IIEA in Dublin: Can QE save the Eurozone?
Talk at the IIEA in Dublin: Can QE save the Eurozone?
About the Speech:
In this address, Eric Lonergan clarified the distinction between monetary and fiscal policy and demonstrated how European institutio...
(PODCAST) Separating fiscal from monetary policy: can QE rescue the Eurozone?
About the Speech:
In this address, Eric Lonergan clarified the distinction between monetary and fiscal policy and demonstrated how European institutions can create an opportunity for innovation in mone...
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 ...