Macroeconomics

Oct

07

The Fed can’t cure the chaos

The economic crises of the last decade made linear thinking about the economy very unhelpful. But our previous planning failures

Oct 7, 2022

3 min read

Aug

05

Monkeypox is no friend of the Fed

Why Monkeypox? Why now? Monkeypox is now in eighty countries [https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/monkeypox/response/2022/world-map.html]

Aug 5, 2022

3 min read

Jul

15

How long will herding support crypto?

There is widespread concern about Crypto contagion which far exceeds the market capitalization of the crypto world. The crypto market

Jul 15, 2022

4 min read

Jun

24

The liquidity quake in crypto

A one-two punch in liquidity is hitting the economy and the prospect of a recession is surging as a result.

Jun 24, 2022

3 min read

Jun

17

Now for the economic yoyo

The Federal Reserve Bank just raised Fed Funds rates 75 basis points after a shock realization that the economy was

Jun 17, 2022

3 min read

May

13

Yes, Terra was very like Lehman Brothers

The failure of Terra (UST), the stablecoin, was very akin to the Lehman Brothers [https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/

May 13, 2022

3 min read

Apr

29

The Federal Reserve - the long view comes into view

Dystopian worlds are a favorite subject in science fiction and a nightmare for central banks. As the Federal Reserve heads

Apr 29, 2022

3 min read

Apr

22

Central Bank Digital Currency is not a race? Tell the rest of the world.

Over the last month, we have discussed stablecoin regulation and Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs). These, and other impending regulations

Apr 22, 2022

3 min read

Apr

22

As Seen on Forbes: Three Tips For Investing in the No-So-Roaring '20s

The decade of the 2020s was supposed to be a mirror image of the gleeful times of the 1920s. It&

Apr 22, 2022

Mar

18

Guns, Covid-19, and Inflation

Europe’s wars are our wars. And the Ukraine war compounds our Covid war, which is still, to varying degrees

Mar 18, 2022

4 min read