Are securities analysts doomed? | Lex Megatrends

29 Apr 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in financial economics Tags: , ,

Edward C. Prescott on monetary policy

28 Apr 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in business cycles, econometerics, economic history, Edward Prescott, financial economics, global financial crisis (GFC), great depression, great recession, inflation targeting, macroeconomics, monetary economics, Robert E. Lucas Tags:

The Vice Fund and the wages of sin under #COVID19

27 Apr 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in defence economics, economics of regulation, financial economics, health economics

From https://www.bloomberg.com/quote/VICEX:US

USA Mutuals Vitium Global Fund seeks long-term growth of capital by investing in equity securities of companies that derive a significant portion of their revenues from a group of vice industries that includes the alcoholic beverages, defense/aerospace, gaming and tobacco industries. The Fund will concentrate at least 25% of its net assets in this group of four vice industries.

The Destabilizing Consequences of Central Banking

27 Apr 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in Austrian economics, business cycles, economic history, financial economics, macroeconomics, monetary economics Tags: , ,

from https://www.capitalismmagazine.com/2016/12/the-destabilizing-consequences-of-central-banking/

John Cochrane explains helicopter drops

25 Apr 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in business cycles, financial economics, fiscal policy, macroeconomics, Milton Friedman, monetarism, monetary economics, politics - New Zealand, public economics

From https://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/john.cochrane/research/papers/understanding_policy_EER.pdf

Stephen Williamson explains quantitative easing

25 Apr 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in financial economics, macroeconomics, monetary economics

From https://www.stlouisfed.org/publications/regional-economist/third-quarter-2017/quantitative-easing-how-well-does-this-tool-work

The Fed and Lehman Brothers: setting the record straight on a financial disaster

23 Apr 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in business cycles, financial economics, global financial crisis (GFC), macroeconomics, monetary economics Tags:

A Conversation with Harold Demsetz

22 Apr 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, Armen Alchian, comparative institutional analysis, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, environmental economics, financial economics, George Stigler, health economics, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice, resource economics, Richard Posner, Ronald Coase, Ronald Coase, Ronald Coase, survivor principle, theory of the firm, transport economics, urban economics

Via https://www.econlib.org/videos/a-conversation-with-harold-demsetz/

What did @Facebook do wrong?

22 Apr 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in financial economics, health economics Tags:

Thomas Sargent on deposit insurance

21 Apr 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, economics of regulation, financial economics, macroeconomics, monetary economics

From https://www.minneapolisfed.org/economic-research/conferences/~/media/files/research/events/2010_04-23/slides/Sargent2_slides.pdf

Monetary policy in the 21st century: An Allan Meltzer perspective

16 Apr 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in business cycles, economic history, financial economics, great depression, great recession, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, monetarism, monetary economics, unemployment Tags: ,

For @BernieSanders @AOC @SenWarren voters relying on @Amazon in the lockdown by Steve Kaplan

14 Apr 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, economic history, entrepreneurship, financial economics, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, Marxist economics, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, public economics Tags: , , ,

From https://www.aei.org/economics/one-way-abolishing-billionaires-would-undermine-silicon-valley-and-americas-entrepreneurial-ecosystem/

Will the pandemic trigger John Cochrane’s fiscal theory of inflation?

14 Apr 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in budget deficits, economic history, financial economics, macroeconomics, monetary economics, public economics Tags: ,

Ricardian equivalence

11 Apr 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, financial economics, fiscal policy, macroeconomics, public economics

From https://growthecon.com/assets/CRAIG_et_al-2015.pdf

How is pension fund socialism going?

11 Apr 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in economic history, entrepreneurship, financial economics Tags: ,

From https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2019/01/who-owns-all-the-stocks-bonds/

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