Following the Financial Crisis of 2008, Western financial systems have been subject to much political debate. Severe misallocations of credit in the years leading up to the subprime mortgage led to excessive housing construction and speculation, culminating in a financial catastrophe. With this said, the role of large commercial and retail banks particularly hasn’t beenContinue reading “Quantity Theory of Credit: Better Banking?”
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Financial Regulation Pitfalls
The financial industry is the largest market in the world. Under intense scrutiny amidst the Financial Crisis of 2008, Western economies such as the UK and US took to heavy regulatory reform and clamped down on speculative behaviour. However, this proved costly for economic growth – producing a wave of unintended consequences that render aContinue reading “Financial Regulation Pitfalls”
Great Recession: Monetary failure
A calamity that shaped the past decade, the Great Recession marked an end to the Great Moderation, three decades of prosperity. The root causes behind the Financial Crisis and the subsequent Great Recession are complex. A speculative shadow banking sector was supported by reckless Central Banks, bailing out financial institutions and promoting the culture ofContinue reading “Great Recession: Monetary failure”
Friedman’s Fallacies
The most influential economist of the late 20th century, Milton Friedman, had a revolutionary effect on today’s world. The turn of 1980 marked a rebirth of economic liberalism and monetarism, a departure from the misguided stop-go monetary and Keynesian fiscal policies. The work of Friedman gave free market leaders in Reagan and Thatcher the frameworkContinue reading “Friedman’s Fallacies”
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