Central Banks on the Offensive?
Pisani-Ferry, Jean. It looks like a coordinated offensive: on September 6, the European Central Bank outlined a new bond-buying program, letting markets know that there were no pre-set limits to its purchases. On September 13, the United States Federal Reserve announced that in the coming months it would purchase some $85 billion of long-term securities […]
Notes On Internal Devaluation
Still in jet-lag city. Talking to people, and also reading what comes across the threshold, it occurs to me that there’s widespread misunderstanding of what a more or less Keynesian view of Europe’s problems actually implies. People seem to think that it means that (a) internal devaluation can never work (b) any sign of recovery, […]