Hiking Interest Rates Protects Financial Assets of the 1% at Workers' Expense
The Fed doesn't need to hurt workers to curb inflation -- there are alternatives, says economist Gerald Epstein.
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The Fed doesn't need to hurt workers to curb inflation -- there are alternatives, says economist Gerald Epstein.
A well regarded paper by Fed resarchers challenges conventional views on the relationship between inflation and employment
Why having central banks as the inflation shock troops is not such a hot idea.
For the first time in a very long time, central bankers are coming under friendly fire as they lose control over some of the economic forces they themselves have helped to generate.
By Lars P. SyllServaas Storm’s has a recent article that is a marvellous final take down of the ridiculous aspirations of New-Classical-New-Keynesian macroeconomic modelling. DSGE models are worse than useless - and still, mainstream economists seem to be überimpressed by the ‘rigour’ brought to macroeconomics by New-Classical-New-Keynesian DSGE models, its rational expectations, and microfoundations!