The lessons learned from the global financial crisis of 2008/2009 seem not to have become commonplace for the operation of the financial system. The turmoil of the past year has shown that further progress is needed in a number of areas to ensure that banks are never too big to fail. It is noted that …
Category: Proposed Fiscal Policies
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Inflation persistent
With monetary and economic policy deadlocked, the White House is now officially throwing in the towel and admitting that the fight against inflation has been lost – almost ruling out monetary easing as evidenced by the fact that the Federal Reserve Reserve despite strong political pressures due to the election cycle kept interest rates unchanged. …
The next financial crisis in Europe will start from France and Italy
In recent years, a new type of crisis has been dynamically emerging in Europe: a crisis of the European social and political model with profound consequences for fiscal and financial stability. France’s problem The big problem starts with exceeding the budget deficits in France and Italy, over 7% and over 5% for 2024 respectively. These …
Hard austerity is coming with over-indebtedness and high inflation
The era of low interest rates and “easy money” is over, despite the dominant narrative in the international financial press of a new round of monetary policy easing that will return economies to pre-pandemic health crisis status and the prophecies of monetary policy makers policy that set the benchmark for monetary policy easing next June …
The “bubble” of the Global Public Debt of 313 trillion dollar will cause an Economic shock
The skyrocketing global debt has become the main problem for the global economy – even if this is being hidden for obvious reasons by the global political elite and the systemic media. Public deficits for anyone with even the slightest understanding of the workings of the economy can neither act as reserves for the private …
FED – ECB: Inflationary landmine with interest rate cuts – Trump victory in the US is the key scenario
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) argued that a pick-up in rent inflation—the index rose unexpectedly sharply in January’s CPI—was due to a shift in the data series that could either mean that the change was a structural shift in values or indeed an error which could be fixed at a later stage. Conclusion; No …
Its perpetual public debt as Greece’s dependency factor
The public debt (Central Government Debt) amounted to €406.5 billion at the end of 2023 and is increased compared to the previous year by €6.2 billion, according to the latest Bulletin of the Public Debt Management Organization (in Greek-ΟΔΔΗΧ) . For this debt, the Greek State paid €6.5 billion in interest in 2023. The Greek …
Digital Platform for BRICS Trade Transactions – Non-IMF Yuan Loan Agreements
American economic hegemony rested on the dominance of the dollar within the system of international trade (mainly important commodities) and as a global reserve within the framework of the famous Bretton Woods agreement after 1944. This hegemony was combined with the formation of post-war international economic organizations such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the …
How do central banks embellish the image of the economy for the benefit of politicians?
Reports on both sides of the Atlantic of ending the current cycle of monetary easing as a central policy option were probably a smoke screen to cover up the poor state of the financial system. The analyzes that are circulating refer to the prospect that the Fed and the ECB return from the spring of …
How is China taught to discard Western sanctions?
Russia’s success in dealing with Western sanctions through de-dollarization and supporting trading partners in Asia may be a valuable lesson for China as pressure to “de-risk” (the policy of the West to diversify supply chains so that it is not dependent on Chinese exports that shaped the so-called trend of de-globalization). Russia has provided many …