Interest Rate Tightening Will Cause Even More Economic Destruction
Rather than contributing to a "soft landing," raising interest rates will continue to destroy wealth.
Rather than contributing to a "soft landing," raising interest rates will continue to destroy wealth.
The Keynesians running our economic life may be reassured that the Fed cannot fail in a technical sense, but the public should be appalled.
Forget the talk from Biden and economists like Paul Krugman. Double-digit inflation is here, and it will be with us for a while.
Mortgage companies and realtors are today's canaries. They're in deep trouble, and so are the rest of us.
Paul Krugman denies that the Fed artificially suppressed interest rates. As usual, Krugman neither understands interest rates nor the effects of inflationary policies.
With his current timid, weak, and prevaricating position on price inflation, Powell is positioning himself as the new Arthur Burns, who did nothing to end 1970s inflation.
The relative lack of inflation in Japan doesn't mean real wages haven't fallen.
The Keynesians running our economic life may be reassured that the Fed cannot fail in a technical sense, but the public should be appalled.
Tightening the interest rate hurts both bubble and solid businesses. The Fed should just focus on reducing the money supply.
Congress enjoys exorbitant political privilege in the form of cheap deficit spending—but it may soon come to an end.