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Update from FF Wiley and Ginger Snap
If you’re reading this you probably subscribed to CYNICONOMICS back in the day, and we owe you an apology for CYNICONOMICS’s abrupt end. We expected to restart it, but just like entitlement reform it never happened. In any case, we … Continue reading
2014 Most Viewed Posts
We posted sporadically this year – with nothing at all after July – but added up our page views anyway. Here are the five most widely read posts, based on page views on CYNICONOMICS as well as three other sites … Continue reading
Technical Notes for ‘Never Mind Their Distrust of Data and Forecasts…’
This is a short appendix for our earlier post, “Never Mind Their Distrust of Data and Forecasts; Austrians Can Help You Predict the Economy,” in the usual Q&A format.
Technical Notes for ‘Planning for Future Rate Hikes…’
This is a short appendix for our earlier post, “Planning for Future Rate Hikes: What Can History Tell Us that the Fed Won’t?,” presented in Q&A format.
Planning for Future Rate Hikes: What Can History Tell Us that the Fed Won’t?
It stands to reason that when the Fed eventually lifts interest rates, we’ll see the usual effects. After a sustained rise in rates, you can safely bet on: Fixed investment and business earnings dropping sharply GDP growth following investment and … Continue reading
Global Drag Threatens Worst U.S. Export Performance in Over 60 Years
Ever since an über-strong U.S. dollar crushed the export sector in the mid-1980s, the U.S. economy hasn’t looked quite the same. Exports picked up towards the end of the decade, helped along by the G-7’s historic 1985 powwow at New … Continue reading
Unintended Consequences of Obama’s Student Loan Policies
So this week, President Obama’s populist, class-warring, shut-out-the-legislature, ignore-the-long-term-consequences romp through every corner of life turned to the education sector. His new policies on student loans include greater access to both payment reductions and loan forgiveness. And, needless to say, … Continue reading
Technical Notes for ‘The Untold Story’
This is an appendix for our earlier post, “Where $1 of QE Goes: The Untold Story.” We’ll describe our use of the Fed’s flow of funds data in more detail, in Q&A format.
Where $1 of QE Goes: The Untold Story
“We don’t understand fully how large-scale asset purchase programs work to ease financial market conditions.” – New York Fed President Bill Dudley “I don’t think there’s any doubt that quantitative easing enabled the rich and the quick. It was a … Continue reading