The Counterfactual on QE
Why We’re Still Arguing Whether QE Worked It’s hard to know what works in economics. But policy experiments in the states...
How do people really feel about the economy?
How do people really feel about the economy? Ben S. Bernanke Brookings, June 30, 2016 Note: this was published last month, prior...
Challenges for the European banking industry
Challenges for the European banking industry Lecture by Vítor Constâncio, Vice-President of the ECB, at the Conference on “European...
Going Cashless Around the World
The Shift to a Cashless Society is Snowballing Source: Visual Capitalist
IMF: Financial Stability and Interest-Rate Policy : A...
IMF Financial Stability and Interest-Rate Policy a Quantitative Assessment of Costs and Benefits by ritholtz1
Is the Fed’s Balance Sheet Too Small?
LCR: Is the Fed’s Balance Sheet Too Small? David R Kotok Cumberland, June 9, 2016 “The idea that there are no excess...
Inside the ECB Asset Purchase Programme
Generally referred to as quantitative easing, or QE, the APP is one of the non-standard monetary policy measures the ECB has taken to...
Big Fed-ECB Divergence
From Torsten Sløk, Ph.D.: Many clients tell me that “The Fed cannot raise rates because growth is so weak in the rest of the world.”...
