197 Results for “mehrling”

Currencies or Commodities?

What’s really going on with Europe’s bailout of the Irish Economy

Peter Conti Brown’s new book explores and debunks a powerful meme shaping public understanding of the role of the Fed

One INET project is to “reconnect the teaching of economics with the working of the actual economy,” which is to begin with a reform of the undergraduate curriculum.

First ECB, then EFSF

Fed to the Rescue?

The text below is the comment I offered on Mr. Soros’ opening speech at INET’s Berlin Conference April 12, 2012. The text of Mr. Soros’ own speech is here. Video of the entire session is below—my bit starts at 55:00.

Fundamentally, the ECB is trying to keep the ongoing sovereign debt crisis from turning into a full-fledged bank credit crisis.

Entangling alliances or entangling leagues are nothing to the entanglements of cash owing—Keynes

The future of government mortgage support

Today’s Financial Times article: ECB: trick or Trichet (Dec 2)

Is raising required bank capital the answer?

New approaches are being developed, but efforts are fragmented and need to be brought together if we hope to piece together a paradigm. 

Learn to read, understand, and evaluate professional discourse about the current operation of money markets at the level of the Financial Times.

The central bank today is not just the government’s bank, but also a bankers’ bank, a truly hybrid institution