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Roving Cavaliers of Credit
Read Some Minsky
Monetary Profits Paradox
Are We "It" Yet?
Monetary Multisectoral Model
"No-one saw this coming"?
Why the Crisis is not over
Deleveraging with a twist
Bernanke doesn't understand the Great Depression
The Case Against Bernanke
Rescuing the Bubble
Australian house prices
Competition No Panacea
House Prices & Banks I
House Prices & Banks II
Lectures on Endogenous Money
Debt and Australian housing
BBC HARDtalk Interview
INET Interview on why I saw "It" coming
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has followed up his critique of neoliberalism with a new essay in the Sydney Morning Herald on the causes of the crisis, and the policies needed after recovery. With one exception, his key explanations for the crisis are the same as those identified by myself and the handful of other […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Broadcast on March 11 2009 by ABC Radio National Big Ideas A blog member has kindly produced a transcript of the off-the-cuff talk I gave at this forum. I’ve made minor corrections to the punctuation below, but the text is otherwise as delivered on the night without speaking notes–so there are some grammatical slips. For […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
“Lies, damned lies, and statistics” is part of a phrase attributed to Benjamin Disraeli and popularised in the United States by Mark Twain: “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.” The statement refers to the persuasive power of numbers, the use of statistics to bolster weak arguments, and the tendency of […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It seems we’ve moved from Stanley Kubrick to John Cleese. Rory Robertson’s reply to my “Rory Robertson Designs a Car” post reminds me of one of my many favourite scenes from Monty Python, the fight between King Arthur and the Black Knight: King Arthur: [after Arthur's cut off both of the Black Knight's arms] Look, you […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Several people have commented on the speech by Glenn Stevens (for international readers, Stevens is the Governor of Australia’s central bank, the Reserve Bank of Australia) yesterday in which he commented, inter alia, that: “I do not know anyone who predicted this course of events. This should give us cause to reflect on how hard […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
If things are really grim, it helps to have an indefatigable nature, and there’s no doubt that RBA Deputy Governor Ric Battellino has that in spades—at least in the speeches he makes at public conferences. Were I being crucified, I’d like to have Ric up there with me, singing “Cheer up Brian!…”, to take my […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Just two years ago, Central Banks appeared triumphant. Inflation, the scourge of the 1970s and 80s, appeared dead, the financial crisis of the Tech Wreck had been contained, economies worldwide were booming, and stock markets and house prices were spiralling ever upwards. Then along came the Subprime Crisis, and we received a rude reminder of […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Late last year on SBS News, when Stan Grant asked me which way the RBA would move rates in 2008, I replied “Up, and then down”, Stan quipped “Spoken like a true economist–an even handed answer!”–to which I replied “More down than up”. I expected the intial rate rises because of the RBA’s focus on […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Steve Keen’s DebtWatch No 22 May 2008 The Reserve Bank Amendment (Enhanced Independence) Bill 2008, which was tabled in Parliament in March, aims to give the RBA Governor and Deputy Governor “the same level of statutory independence as the Commissioner of Taxation and the Australian Statistician” (Wayne Swann, Hansard, Thursday, 20 March 2008, p. 2381). […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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