Showing posts with label quantitative easing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label quantitative easing. Show all posts
Thursday, 13 September 2012

So the solution to a dysfunctional housing market is to make it more dysfucntional?

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**** It seems that the housing sector has been captured by people whose grasp of economics and understanding of markets is diminishingly s...
Thursday, 6 October 2011

What aid might teach us about quantitative easing

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**** In times past we used to think that one effect of international aid was to act as an economic stimulus. And, in orthodox economics,...
Wednesday, 28 September 2011

...or you could just cut taxes? A comment on 'green quantitative easing'.

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**** A kind soul (well my sister actually) sent me a copy of Richard Murphy and Colin Hines masterpiece entitled “Green Quantitative Ea...
Thursday, 13 January 2011

"La, la, la. Not listening, not listening." The Bank of England and the inflation threat

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**** It is a while since I’ve commented on the extent to which our economic lords and masters are ignoring the damage that consistent a...
Sunday, 7 November 2010

The coming economic winter - quantitiative easing, inflation and the crashes that are yet to come...

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An economic winter is coming. There are two business columnists in the Sunday Telegraph who I always read – and who seem often to be descri...
Saturday, 11 September 2010

Up, up and away! More on the inflation threat.

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In a meeting the other day I heard an officer make an observation - in the context of "the cuts" - that went a little like this: ...
Monday, 23 August 2010

Labour left an inflation time bomb - and it's going off some time soon

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Back in February I wrote this : The Government’s strategy is to use inflation to reduce the impact of massive debt and to protect Labour...