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Quantitative Tightening and Capital Flows to Emerging Markets

Policy Center for the New SouthIn its May 15th meeting, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) of the U.S. Federal Reserve (Fed) lifted its...

The spectre of stagflation, with or without a monetary restriction

Inflation is not always and everywhere the same. It is like Covid, there are variants, and in Europe we have got a bad variant....

Is the U.S. Economy in Recession?

Policy Center for the New SouthThe preliminary GDP (Gross Domestic Product) results of the U.S. for the second quarter, released by the U.S. Bureau...

Whither China’s Economic Growth

First appeared at Policy Center for the New SouthChinese economic figures released since the beginning of August have showed a slowdown in its growth....

The Presidential Race Is Nearly a Tossup—Meaning That Somebody Has It 80% in the Bag, But Polling Uncertainties Mean We Do Not Know Who

So pay the polls no attention for the next two weeks, and then come back. Plus who really made Biden decide to drop out—it...

A strong dollar is contractionary for the global economy

The US dollar value index against other global currencies, compiled by the Federal Reserve of Saint Louis, reached its highest level in the last...

Macroeconomic Policy Regime Change in Advanced Economies

Original PostA triple structural change in the macroeconomic policy regime in advanced economies has taken place in the last two years, as...

Watching the Fed: Anticipated Rate-Cut Rollercoaster

With Nick Timiraos & Colby Smith—& Tim Duy—now in charge of how I interpret Fed messaging.… The Federal Reserve initiated its 2024 monetary-policy easing...

WEEKLY BRIEFLY NOTED: FOR 2024-09-19 Th

My weekly read-around...Yasheng Huang on the history of China; income inequality in the US and Scandinavia since WWII; Monty Python on our debt to...

A Sketch of How They (More-or-Less) Viewed the World

Since at least the spread of agriculture up to 1770, human society everywhere was caught in the Malthusian Trap.Humanity’s ensorcellment by the Devil of...

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Biden Admin Scrambling To Auction Off Border-Wall Sections Before Trump Takes Office

With Donald Trump set to retake office in January, the Biden administration is scrambling to auction off unused sections of Trump's border wall, the...

Do You Have a Passion for Political Solutions?

This week, as expected, the Federal Reserve did not hike nor cut the federal funds rate.  Instead, following the two-day FOMC meeting, the central...

MiB: Tony Kim, Blackrock Active Technology

     This week, we speak with Tony Kim, Managing Director and Head of the Fundamental Equities’ Global Technology Team at BlackRock. he is manager of...