The US central bank, with its recent decision, is attempting to avoid a liquidity shortage that could be caused by excessive withdrawal of reserves from the banking system. The Federal Reserve (Fed) cut interest rates by 25 basis points for the second consecutive meeting, bringing policy rates to their lowest range since 2022, between 3.75% …
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Commodity Prices at New Heights for 2021
Given that the Covid-19 pandemic caused the cessation of all kinds of travel, it made sense that demand for oil would drastically reduce during the pandemic (2020). But other commodities have had particularly good returns over the past year. Low interest rates have made priceless metals such as gold valuable and incredibly attractive, passing $2000 …
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 “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 …