Blog Profile / Free Exchange
| URL : | http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Business & Finance / Economics | |
| Posts on Regator: | 5105 | |
| Posts / Week: | 19.7 | |
| Archived Since: | June 7, 2008 | |
Blog Post Archive
Parsing the Federal Reserve
The Federal Reserve left a lot of people scratching their heads this week. Between Chairman Ben Bernanke’s testimony, and the release of the minutes to the May 1 st Federal Open Market Committee, investors were struggling to figure whether an end to easy monetary policy was nigh. Show More Summary
The wages of sin
On economic penance
Things could be better
Pew surveys global economic attitudes
Out of harm's way
What next for the world's poorest workers?
Right into the dollar zone
Of dollarisation and the euro crisis
Big bills left in the shipping container
An antidote to economic pessimism
The ECB can't substitute for periphery financial reform
Credit easing in Europe might work, but may not be worth the risk
Der Elefant im Raum
Europe needs more German inflation
The periphery's problem is an incomplete internal devaluation
Credit easing won't fix "overvalued" stocks of peripheral wealth
Only the ECB can improve bank credit supply
Without a European Funding for Lending scheme, conditions will continue to worsen
Banking union on the cheap will fail
Wolfgang Schaeuble's plans will not break the diabolical loop
Europe faces a risk of "zombification"
Propping up business lending could boost peripheral economies, but at the risk of protecting unproductive firms
The need for a targeted lending scheme in the euro area
ECB support for small and medium-size business is needed sooner rather than later
Broken transmission mechanisms
The ECB is struggling to influence monetary policy around the periphery
82 not out
Today the governor of the Bank of England was uncharacteristically upbeat
What the euro has meant
Very little growth, as it turns out
Fiscal consolidation, American style
American public borrowing is dropping at a remarkable pace
Shock and awesome
The good news behind the equity/commodity price divergence
Judge Robart’s patent medicine
For the first time, a court has decided on a "reasonable" patent royalty
Recovery in their time
Escaping past liquidity traps