martes, 22 de noviembre de 2011

Debunking the 'savings glut' thesis

Aca

Global savings glut or global banking glut? Yves Smith

Look after the unemployment, and the budget will look after itself: "Modern macroeconomics textbooks perpetuate the idea of a loanable funds market. In Greg Mankiw’s Principles, which is representative, we are taken back in time, to the theories that were prevalent before being destroyed by the intellectual advances provided in Keynes’ General Theory.

Mankiw assumes that it is reasonable to represent the financial system as the “market for loanable funds” where “all savers go to this market to deposit their savings, and all borrowers go to this market to get their loans. In this market, there is one interest rate, which is both the return to saving and the cost of borrowing.”"

The inflation fallacy

Nick Rowe

Lost decades: The real lesson from Japan

The Economist

Rules vs discretion en el Bullion Report

Aca

miércoles, 9 de noviembre de 2011

Shovel ready

Aca. Mas

Negative natural rates of interest and NGDP targets

Nick Rowe

Gustav Cassel foresaw the Great Depression

Aca. Tyler Cowen Gustav Cassel on Hoover's mistake and monetary policy failure

El fin del euro

Algunos que acertaron. Wynne Godley

The Economist

Felix Salmon

Going right to the top in Europe

Is this the end?

Death of a currency as eurogeddon approaches

What are they thinking?

The euro area is coming to an end

Who killed the eurozone?

Europe's disastrous summit

A disastrous failure at the summit

What's the best shape for the AD curve?

Nick Rowe

What moves the interest rate term structure?

La Fed de San Francisco