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- Stimulus Package Report Card: Has It Worked?
- So far, at least some of the $787 billion stimulus package is showing signs of success. But what about the longer term? And will it have been worth the cost? The answer is that at least some of the spending has goosed the economy. But it’s a tricky...
- Articles 2009-09-15
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- Stimulus, Not Transactions Tax Needed: Geithner
- By Glenn SomervilleST ANDREWS, Scotland (Reuters) - Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on Saturday stressed the necessity of keeping global economic stimulus in place until recovery is assured and opposed the utility of a tax on financial transactions as a way to dampen risky bank behavior.Speaking at the conclusion of a...
- News items 2009-11-07
- Stimulus, Not Tax Needed: Geithner
- By Glenn SomervilleST ANDREWS, Scotland (Reuters UK) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on Saturday stressed the necessity of keeping global economic stimulus in place until recovery is assured and opposed the utility of a tax on financial transactions as a way to dampen risky bank behaviour.Speaking at the conclusion...
- News items 2009-11-07
- Geithner: Need Stimulus, Not Financial Transactions Tax
- By Glenn SomervilleST ANDREWS, Scotland (Reuters) - Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on Saturday stressed the necessity of keeping global economic stimulus in place until recovery is assured and opposed the utility of a tax on financial transactions as a way to dampen risky bank behavior.Speaking at the conclusion of a...
- News items 2009-11-08
- Monetary Policy: Gradualism Is Bad, Except in Comparison to Any Other Option
- James Picerno submits: New York Times columnist Paul Krugman writes today that it's too early to begin removing the monetary stimulus engineered by the Federal Reserve. "A few months ago the U.S. economy was in danger of falling into depression," he notes in his column. "Aggressive...
- External links 2009-06-15
- ECB Does Nothing, Indicates Monetary Tightening
- The Prudent Investor submits: Leaving its key interest rate unchanged at 1% on Thursday, the European Central Bank (ECB) appears to remain in standby mode, keeping financial institutions flush with cheap liquidity. The only new twist in President Jean-Claude Trichet's repetitive flood of calming words came in...
- External links 2009-11-05
- Arguments Against Fiscal Stimulus Exhibit "Deep Incoherence"
- It seems to me that there is a deep incoherence in the argument that fiscal stimulus won't work. Nobody -- well, very few people -- doubts that when demand falls and unemployment starts rising and consumer prices flatten and start going down that it is appropriate for the Federal Reserve...
- Blog posts 2009-04-07
- Fiscal Stimulus Beats Doing Nothing -- By a Lot
- Tyler, you write that you "find a lot of wisdom in using monetary policy to regulate aggregate demand and evaluating government spending projects on their own merits." Let me say that I agree 100 percent -- in normal times. Our problem right now is that times are not normal, and...
- Blog posts 2009-04-07
- China's Hu Prods West on Trade Barriers
- By Lucy Hornby and Kevin YaoSINGAPORE (Reuters UK) - Chinese President Hu Jintao called on Friday for an end to "unreasonable" trade restrictions on developing countries, just days ahead of a U.S. presidential visit to his country that has been clouded by economic tensions.In a speech to business and political...
- News items 2009-11-13
- Countries Must Unwind Stimulus: McKibbin
- A "bubble" may be forming in global markets due to the very low base rates of interest put in place during the financial crisis and regulators must act quickly to unwind the stimulus, a central bank board member has warned.Reserve Bank of Australia RBA board member Warwick McKibbin, who...
- News items 2009-11-30
- The Fed's Monetary Policy Has Veered Off Course
- Although the risk of deflation has receded in recent months, Fed policy is still too contractionary for the needs of the economy, as the money supply has not kept up with increases in money demand. Two percent inflation is the goal Both Lee Ohanian...
- Blog posts 2009-06-30
- 100,000 jobs to go if stimulus cut - Henry
- A Senate inquiry will today drill Treasury secretary Ken Henry and his department over stimulus measures. TREASURY Secretary Ken Henry has warned a further 100,000 jobs could be lost if the Federal Government's planned stimulus spending is scrapped. Addressing a Senate inquiry in Canberra today, Dr Henry said withdrawing the...
- News items 2009-10-08
- Reviving the Credit Based Monetary System
- Josh Patt submits: In a previous article, I wrote that the world now has two options: going from a credit based economy back to a money based one, or trying to revive the credit based system. As expected, most of the world’s governments and central banks, led by the...
- External links 2009-04-07
- The Business Council on the Rudd Stimulus Package | BTalk Australia
- (14min 55) After some argy-bargy in the Senate, the Australian government has passed a $42 billion fiscal stimulus package. About a third of the money will go in cash handouts to low and middle income earners, with most of the remainder allocated on infrastructure projects. There’s been...
- Blog posts 2009-02-19
- The Debate over the Stimulus Plan
- Our optimist, Professor Menzie Chinn of the University of Wisconsin, sees a bold investment that came not a moment too soon. Our skeptic, Garett Jones of George Mason University, smells a boondoggle. Follow their debate and decide for yourself who's right…When the president signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act...
- Articles 2009-03-17
- Stimulus: A Second Round?
- Most of the talk of green shoots in the U.S. economy is among people in the impatient, forward-looking financial markets. But in the real world, the employment situation is still pretty grim, and consumers are keeping a firm grip on their wallets. The Obama team took to the political talk...
- Blog posts 2009-06-28
- Riding the Fed's Trading Train
- Tim Duy submits: It is difficult if not impossible to deny the firming of economic data in recent months. But that firming has been inexorably tied to a host of fiscal and monetary stimulus measures. Fiscal stimulus is dependent upon political will and the Treasury's ability to...
- External links 2009-09-10
- UK Needs Firm Plan to Cut Borrowing-OECD
- PARIS (Reuters UK) - Britain needs to come up with a concrete plan to cut its ballooning budget deficit to soothe concerns about the stability of the public finances, a leading think-tank said on Thursday.The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development said ultra-loose monetary policy and government measures have helped...
- News items 2009-11-19
- Rewriting the future. (International Monetary Fund forecasts and recommendations)
- The International Monetary Fund predicts an economic recovery for all large industrial nations in 1993. It cautions the US against a short-term stimulus and recommends larger budget reduction goals. Recommendations for other countries and inflation forecaThe International Monetary Fund predicts an economic recovery for all large industrial nations in 1993....
- Research articles 1993-05-01
- FOMC Insight: Dollar Rallies on Lack of Exit Strategy Talk
- Kathy Lien submits: The U.S. dollar has rallied sharply on the heels of the FOMC announcement despite the fact that the Federal Reserve made no major changes to their monetary policy statement. They kept interest rates unchanged and did not alter the size and scope of their...
- External links 2009-06-24
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