Insight into the Impact of Credit Disequilibrium on Financial Markets

Capital Destruction in emerging markets

The variability of emerging market performance implies that asset allocation be best approached from a country perspective. An analysis of the ex post Wicksellian Differentials and ex ante signals of BRIC countries highlights continuing diverging trends with the...

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A Swedish perspective on the equilibrium level of interest

The equilibrium rate of interest in the history of economics has been a surprisingly controversial topic. In a brilliant essay [from 1979] the Swedish economist Leijonhufvud stated that “the theory of the interest rate mechanism is the center of the confusion in...

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A brief history of inflation in two charts

Over the last few months there have been numerous comments on blogs on the nature of inflation in historical periods, particularly that inflation has always been with us to a certain extent. The below chart demonstrates that this is clearly not the case. Using the...

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