Category: Monetary Policy
28 December, 2010 (12:32) | Bubbles, China, Global news, Housing, Inflation, Monetary Policy, Real estate taxes, Speculation, Taxation |
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.] By: David A. Smith Rearranging the Chinese puzzle pieces in light of the new information presented in a solid Telegraph story by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, reported in yesterday’s Part 1, that China’s expansionist monetary policy was designed to keep its economy growing even in the face of a global [...]
27 December, 2010 (13:03) | Bubbles, China, Global news, Housing, Inflation, Monetary Policy, Real estate taxes, Speculation, Taxation |
By: David A. Smith Making sense of the Chinese housing economy from a distance is like a tangram – even though every now and then one grasps another puzzle piece, they can be reconfigured endlessly, each time with a different meaning – and that presumes we have hold of all the pieces. And [...]
3 November, 2010 (16:06) | Bernanke, Capital markets, Deficits, Global news, Inflation, Monetary Policy, Speculation, US News |
By: David A. Smith As J. R. R. Tolkien once wrote, so it begins. As reported in Bloomberg News, there is a stirring behind the Misty Mountains: Treasury Draws Negative Yield for First Time During TIPS Sale Negative return – investors are paying to give their money to Treasury for a short [...]
2 September, 2010 (10:53) | Federal Reserve, Global news, Monetary Policy, Politics, Recession, US News |
By: David A. Smith “Ben! What are you doing about the economy? “ “Mr. President, I’m doing what I told you I would.” – not overheard on a non-wiretapped line “You can’t accuse me of inconsistency.” You have to forgive Politico for seeing only the politics of the most recent not-rainy-enough pronunciamento [...]