monetary policy

  Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) has shifted from academic margins into policy conversations because it presents a straightforward proposition: If a country issues its own currency, it need not fear deficits; the only binding constraint is inflation. For governments facing aging populations while preparing for strategic rearmament, green investment and industrial policy, this message is […]

  This article addresses America’s current financial and economic situation. What it is not, is a treatise on tariffs or US politics – those two topics have been very thoroughly covered by a plethora of commentators. Rather, our focus herein is to examine America’s situ by employing the Austrian business cycle’s theoretical framework to better […]

  Last December, when Milei became President of Argentina, his Minister of Economics, Luis Caputo, implemented a transitory plan to (a) clean up the central bank’s balance sheet and (b) remove all capital controls (cepo cambiario), paving the way for a more permanent monetary regime. It was implicitly suggested that by mid-2024, the transitory plan […]