• We're facing a financial death spiral

    We're facing a financial death spiral

    The recent depreciation of the pound is the latest in a long line of traumatic incidents for successive UK governments. British politicians were repeatedly confronted with the terrible threat of currency depreciation during the postwar era of 'fixed but changeable' exchange rates.
  • What will happen to inflation?

    What will happen to inflation?

    The existing monetary and fiscal policies are self-destructive.
  • Racial Inequality and Monetary Policy

    Racial Inequality and Monetary Policy

    We measure and analyze the magnitude of both the earnings and portfolio impacts of monetary policy in our research, and we find evidence that both are at work.
  • The World Is Drowning in Debt

    The World Is Drowning in Debt

    According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), global fiscal support in response to the crisis will be more than $9 trillion, approximately 12 percent of world GDP. This premature, clearly rushed, probably excessive, and often misguided chain of so-called stimulus plans will distort public finances in a way which we have not seen since World War …
  • Coronavirus may lead to worst global recession since Great Depression: IMF

    Coronavirus may lead to worst global recession since Great Depression: IMF

    The coronavirus pandemic will plunge the global economy into its worst recession since the Great Depression, the International Monetary Fund predicted Tuesday. The fund expects the world economy to contract by 3 percent in 2020 as measures meant to stop the virus freeze economic activity around the world. That’s a much steeper drop than 2009, …
  • IMF: Chinese virus recession may be worse than financial crisis

    IMF: Chinese virus recession may be worse than financial crisis

    The coronavirus pandemic could strike a bigger blow to the global economy than the financial crisis did a decade ago, the International Monetary Fund warned. The IMF expects the economy to enter a “recession at least as bad as during the global financial crisis or worse” this year as the virus spreads around the world, …