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Willem Buiter: how about abolish currency COMPLETELY?
Willem Buiter of Citi suggests that to lower effective lower bound on nominal interest rates, one of the solutions is to abolish currency altogether.
Population ageing and (dis-) inflation Evidence suggests that the older the overall population, the less likely the country would have high inflation.
Central Bankers United! Central banks of Canada, UK, Japan, Europe, Switzerland and the Fed will be cutting the rates on dollar swap lines by 50 basis points.
Niall Ferguson: The End Of Great Divergence The divergence between the West and the rest for the past many centuries is ended, said Niall Ferguson.
The Endgame Of Quantitative Easing: COMMUNISM? In a persistently deflationary environment, central bank become bigger and bigger to counter that until it finally running out of things to buy.
Currency War: United States Vs. China – Round 998,793,487,485 Chinese Yuan seems to have largely paused its orderly ascent against the USD for a month or two, doesn’t seem to care what US Congress is doing.
Nobel Prize In Economics 2011 Goes To Thomas J. Sargent and Christopher A. Sims Nobel Prize In Economics 2011 Goes To Thomas J. Sargent and Christopher A. Sims “for their empirical research on cause and effect in the macroeconomy”
More On EM Currencies Weakening It seems that a strong dollar is creating some troubles elsewhere in emerging markets. EM are having some selling pressures of late.
19 Years Ago, It Was Black Wednesday With the European sovereign debt and banking crisis on-going, let’s look at what happened to the United Kingdom 19 years ago today.
Fed, ECB, BOJ and SNB Coordinate To Provide US Dollar Liquidity Fed, ECB, BOJ and SNB are coordinating to provide 3-month US dollar liquidity till the end of the year.
Chinese Bond Buying And Exchange Rate Policy Chinese might be shopping for bonds around, but the motive of propping European bonds and Euro is simply a part of their trade and exchange rate policy.
Concerted Monetary Easing As Early As This Weekend? As slowing growth and collapsing stock market, Morgan Stanley thinks that a coordinated monetary easing effort might be possible as early as this weekend.
1931, 2008, 2010? No, It’s 2011 People start worry about the Euro crisis and start drawing comparison with 2008 and other crises. But perhaps this is just something unique.
Now For Something Different: Brazil Cuts Interest Rate Brazil’s central bank cuts interest rate by 50 basis points from 12.5% to 12.0%. Potential weakness of Brazil may be telling for the Chinese economy.
Western Debt Crises And China With the economic mess in the West and the apparent strength of Chinese economy, it is easy to forget that we are just all in the mess together.
Standing by for the China growth hiccough, then buy with both hands 
China economy: 2012 and beyond 
Bailout From China Should Be The Last Thing Europe Wants China Economy: More Worrying Signs 
Between Hard Landing And Not Landing 
China Economy: Risk Of Hard Landing Increases 
There Is More Debt In China Than We Can Possibly Know 
“This Time Is Different” Syndrome In China 10 Reasons To Short China 
