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Bank of England, BOE, BOJ, Bonds, Central banks, Commodities, ECB, Energy, Equities, Federal Reserve, Fiscal policy, Forex, Government, Inflation, Intervention, Macro, MMT, Money, money supply, QE

The Beggar’s Opera

Posted on February 6, 2021February 7, 2021 by Sean Corrigan

Though a lot of hot money was poured into the trade in the last quarter of 2020, there is still much reluctance on the part of economists – always prone to a spot of Under-consumption fallacy – to wholly embrace the idea that prices are beginning to rise and that the path ahead is likely to be an inflationary one. That path will inevitably not be smooth, nor its ascent uninterrupted, but it is hard to see where we slow the climb or take a different turning – or even that sufficient will exists to choose that alternative were it ever to come up on our satnav.

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Bank of England, BOE, Bonds, Central banks, Corporatism, Credit, ECB, Europe, Federal Reserve, Fiscal policy, Fixed Income, Inflation, Macro, MMT, Money, Planning, Politics, QE, UK Treasury, US Treasury, USA

Tighten Your Belts: The Rationale

Posted on November 24, 2020November 24, 2020 by Sean Corrigan

Markets seem happy for now to focus on the carrot of a vaccine while ignoring the stick of the further severe restrictions to life and liberty being implemented while we await its delivery. Whether or not it offers a release from bondage, the state’s rediscovered taste for authoritarianism will, however, take some good time to dispel, while its corollary – the move toward taking an ever greater role amid the wreckage of the private economy – is being pursued with relish. Whatever the sloganizing, this is very unlikely to Build anything Back Better – only dearer and scarcer.

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Bank of England, Budget, Central banks, Economics, Fiscal policy, Fixed Income, Forex, Government, Inflation, Intervention, money supply, Revenues, UK, UK Treasury

A Great Deal of Ruin

Posted on October 3, 2020October 9, 2020 by Sean Corrigan

The Johnson government’s approach to COVID19 has been a toxic mix of contradiction, vacillation, and jackbooted authoritarianism. There seems no exit strategy and no end to the spiralling cost. We take a critical look at the impact on the budget impact and discuss what it means for inflation.

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Banking, Budget, Deficit, Federal Reserve, Fiscal policy, Fixed Income, Government, Inflation, Macro, MMT, US Treasury, USA

Fiscal Free Lunch

Posted on September 11, 2020October 9, 2020 by Sean Corrigan

[This is the first of a series of short bulletins called, ‘The Course of the Exchange’, in memory of John Castaing’s widely-read updates, posted in Jonathan’s Coffee House in Change Alley, 300 years ago]

With the latest CBO estimates for the US Federal budget for August just in, we are again in a position to take stock of the scale of the burden which the COVID-19 lockdowns and more general restrictions have imposed upon the nation’s finances. It does not make for happy reading.

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Austrian Theory, Banking, Credit, Deficit, Fiscal policy, Inflation, Macro, MMT, Money

MMT: The Court Astrologer’s Dream

Posted on February 1, 2019September 3, 2020 by Sean Corrigan

MMT has recently enjoyed a sudden resurgence in popularity. but, like so many other systems which claim to reveal previously undiscovered truths, it turns out to be nothing more than a retread of a number of age-old fallacies, only appealing because it seems to promise the Provider State unlimited power to interfere in our lives. We discuss its failings here.

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