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Hanke’s 2022 Misery Index—Who’s Miserable and Who’s Happy?
Commentary
May 22, 2023
China Holds All the Cards in the Great Green Energy Game
Commentary
May 10, 2023
Memo to the Fed: Money Matters
New regulations meant to make banks safer will only destroy money and slow down growth.
Commentary
May 5, 2023
One Way to Solve the Stock Market’s Valuation Puzzle
Any way you cut it, none of these macro views are particularly supportive for stocks right now.
Commentary
Apr. 17, 2023
The Fed’s Self-Directed Tragedy
Commentary
Mar. 23, 2023
The U.S. Needs a Budget Straitjacket
Commentary
Mar. 21, 2023
High Inflation Will End Soon
But the Fed’s change in course heightens the risk of recession.
Commentary
Feb. 15, 2023
The Fed’s Monetary Whiplash
The Federal Reserve’s money-supply mistakes mean a recession is coming.
Commentary
Feb. 7, 2023
The Goose that Stopped Laying Golden Eggs
The Fed could have learned from the Bank of England’s response to the panic of 1825.
Commentary
Feb. 7, 2023
It’s Time to Put a Brake on the Debt-Ceiling Charade
The U.S. should break the habit of going to the fiscal brink and adopt a policy that has been shown to work.
Commentary
Jan. 19, 2023
The IMF and Sri Lanka Are Partners in Delusion
As Sri Lanka enters its 17th IMF program, it’s time to ask for a different solution to the country’s problems.
Commentary
Jan. 19, 2023
How Japan Kept Inflation Rates Low
Its monetary policy has long been ultra-tight, not ultra-loose.
Commentary
Jan. 10, 2023
The Money Supply and the Housing Market Are Joined at the Hip
Housing markets have reacted as the quantity theory of money would predict.
Commentary
Dec. 19, 2022
Don’t Bet Against the Hong Kong Dollar
Currency boards are always a graveyard for speculators.
Commentary
Dec. 5, 2022
How to Fight Inflation
The views of four distinguished experts.
Article
Oct. 20, 2022
A Guide to Avoiding the IMF–China Debt Trap
Lower-income countries can choose monetary reform, or they can continue being treated as leverage in a messy game of international politics.
Commentary
Oct. 19, 2022
Public Lands: America’s Great Anomaly
Commentary
Oct. 6, 2022
The Verdict Is in for El Salvador’s Bitcoin Experiment: It Failed
Commentary
Sep. 13, 2022
Next PM Must Guarantee Britain Never Locks Down Again
Commentary
Sep. 13, 2022
Floating Exchange Rates Add to Economic Uncertainty
Instability brings problems for the U.S. and Europe—and serious crises to the developing nations.
Commentary
Aug. 9, 2022


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