Showing posts with label Monetary Policy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Monetary Policy. Show all posts
Thursday, August 13, 2026

Washington Propping Up the Yen Won't Fix Japan's Monetary Woes

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In response to the weakening yen, the U.S. Treasury decided on July 31 to commit up to  $10 billion to prop up the yen . The yen initially s...
Thursday, June 25, 2026

Elon Musk, the First Trillionaire: A Capitalist Success Story with Some Caveats

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Just when you thought Elon Musk could not have gotten any richer, he announced the initial public offering (IPO) of SpaceX, an aerospace ma...
Thursday, October 30, 2025

Milei's Monetary Tightrope: Argentina Is Caught Between a Crawling Band and Whatever Comes Next

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Last Sunday, I left Buenos Aires after spending 40 days. It suffices to say Argentina has been on my mind a lot. I have mostly examined Arge...
Thursday, June 5, 2025

Is the Reign of the U.S. Dollar Coming to an End?: Assessing the Future of Global Reserves

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Tariffs notwithstanding, the United States has fiscally been in such a tumult in recent years. Last month, the credit rating agency Moody...
Thursday, December 12, 2024

President Javier Milei Improved Argentina in His First Year as Planet's First Libertarian President

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As much as I love Argentina culturally, its economy has been ruined by nearly eight decades of Peronist government largesse, including garga...
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Monday, December 4, 2023

Why Argentina Needs to Ditch Its Peso and Pursue Dollarization "Ya Mismo"

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Argentina's economic state has been in disarray for quite some time. In 2003, the Argentinian peso (ARS) was valued at about 3 pesos to ...
Monday, March 27, 2023

Should Silicon Valley Bank Be Bailed Out?: Part II, Moral Hazard and Costs of Deposit Insurance

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The banking sector has become a hot topic in the news cycle recently. Last week, I dedicated two pieces to the topic. The first piece was o...
Thursday, March 23, 2023

Should Silicon Valley Bank Be Bailed Out?: Part I, Considering Financial Contagion

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March 10, 2023 should have been another Friday, but it ended up being when Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) collapsed, thereby triggering the secon...
Monday, March 20, 2023

Poor Investment Choices and Monetary Policy Caused the Silicon Valley Bank Failure, Not "Deregulation"

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What a month it has been for banking! I am sure that you have heard the name Silicon Valley Bank, or SVB for short, by now. SVB is a state-c...
Monday, November 7, 2022

How Fiscal and Monetary Policy Greatly Contributed to the 2021-22 Inflation Spike

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A couple of weeks ago, I illustrated how profit margins and corporate greed were not ultimately responsible for the inflation spike in the ...