Negative Interest Rate Policies Create Ironic Trap for Central Banks
After driving interest rates into the negative in numerous countries around the world and despite being charged with reducing systemic financial risk, central...
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The Cases For and Against a Looming Stock Market Bubble
Despite a moribund economy, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has more than doubled in value over the past seven years, recently surpassing 18,000....
Wage Insurance: Paycheck Socialism
Although elements of socialism have slowly crept into the economy, President Obama's calls for wage insurance cross well over the line. Under his...
Are Economic Stimulus Programs Worth the Price of Admission?
The International Monetary Fund is urging G-20 nations to consider a coordinated implementation of fiscal and monetary stimulus to counteract signs of a...
Junk Bonds Are Predicting a Junk Economy
Although the narrative from the Obama administration is one of an economy that has been humming along nicely, the reality is that the...
Negative Interest Rates: Helpful Tool or Central Bank Madness?
Heavy doses of monetary policy have become the norm throughout the Western world over the past few decades, with the lowering of interest...
The Lessons of Ronald Reagan in Battling America’s Economic Malaise
Last Friday, the Commerce Department released its initial estimate of U.S. economic growth for the fourth quarter of 2015, and the news was...
The Fallacy of Obama’s Job Creation
The Obama administration has loudly touted reports that the U.S. economy has generated 14.1 million new jobs over the past 70 months and...