The ten-year record for euro area inflation – 3% in August from 2.2% in July and structural inflation (excluding energy and food) rose 1.6%, the highest since 2012 – is now key area of controversy and strong arguments for proponents of restrictive monetary policy. Their arguments are reinforced by the recently announced inflation in Germany …
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Why Demand for Investment in European Bonds Is Growing
The fact that the ECB, through its programmes of the type of quantum easing (QE) and Pandemic Emergency Purchases Program (PEPP) respectively, provides the market with money, making it the main buyer of European government bonds, forces investors to create an informal queue to buy the remaining and smaller volume of European bonds offerings left …
The Crypto Assets and their Regulatory Framework
Ludwig Von Mises in its book titled «The Theory of Money and Credit» mention that «the State has not the power of directly making anything into money, into a common medium of exchange. It is only the practice of the individuals who take part in business that can make a commodity into a medium of …
Pandemic Forces Governments to Adopt Socialist Economic Policies
The ever-increasing implementation of the monetary policy, which, due to the pandemic and its measures to deal with economic shutdowns and social isolation, in other words the continuous printing of money, is being used to cover the damage caused to economies while providing state aid to both workers and businesses (in the form of subsidies …
Pandemic Forces Governments to Adopt Socialist Economic Policies
The ever-increasing implementation of the monetary policy, which, due to the pandemic and its measures to deal with economic shutdowns and social isolation, in other words the continuous printing of money, is being used to cover the damage caused to economies while providing state aid to both workers and businesses (in the form of subsidies …
The Problematic Course of the Eurozone (EU) Economy and the Proposed Corrective Policies
The indications to date for the euro area economy raise reasonable concerns, increasingly removing the scenario for a recovery of its V-shaped economy and increasingly approaching the scenario of slow and uneven K-shaped growth. At the same time, the governments of the euro area member countries are particularly concerned about the further recession that the …
The “Therapeutic” Policies for the Economies of the Planet affected by the Covid-19 Pandemic
The global economic crisis caused by the Covid-19 pandemic is not simple to deal with, nor is it easy, because for the first time in peacetime both demand and supply are being affected at the same time in the affected economies». All economists worldwide are revising their estimates of the magnitude of the economic downturn …
How the US and the World’s Countries will avoid the Economic Armageddon caused by the Lockdown of Coronavirus Pandemic
The terrifying economic downturn that the developed economies of the world are gradually facing, especially that of the US, due to the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic is much worse than the global financial crisis of 2008 caused by the collapse of the US investment bank Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. This is because the current crisis is …
Governments and Central Banks React while the World Economy Enters in Recession Coma
The EU last week announced that the enforced rules on budgetary discipline are being suspended in order the member-countries of Eurozone to deal drastically with the upcoming recession due to the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic. The US Senate House on March 25 approved the $2trillion fiscal package proposal of US President Donald Trump to supprot the …
The Sustainable Solution for the Eurozone Economy – Part IV
As regards the public sector expenditures on unemployment benefits and given that there will be a joint operational and centrally designed budget for the central government of the Eurozone, these costs will must be made with a combination of expenditures both from the budget of the central’s government member state and the common Eurozone budget. …