Maret 2015

The bond-stock conundrum

Here's a conundrum. Many commentators have been trying to puzzle out why stocks have been continually hitting new highs at the same time...

Dear Senator, Recently I revisited some recordings of the Senate hearings on Digital Currency from 2014-10-02. I appreciate the number of ve...

Central bankers are usually classified as either hawks or doves. This post is devoted to a third and rare breed; today's monetary policy...

Here's an interesting fact. Remember all those worthless Zimbabwe paper banknotes? The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ), Zimbabwe's ce...

Paul Krugman has two posts discussing the effective lower bound to interest rates. The first I agree with, albeit with a caveat, and the o...

This week at Decentral Vancouver we had an interesting discussion with Gene Vayngrib, Greg Meredith and Katryna Dow (the full video of the ...

If you've been reading Bill Gross's last few letters, you'll know that he's been a bit grumpy of late. It's that dang n...

Universal basic income (UBI) is an interesting experiment. For those of you unfamiliar with the idea, it's "a form of social secur...