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recent bookmarks from asterisk2aThe ten graphs which show how Britain became a wholly owned subsidiary of the City of London (and what we can do about it) – New thinking for the British economy2017-05-09T01:57:18+00:00
https://www.opendemocracy.net/neweconomics/the-ten-graphs-which-show-how-britain-became-a-wholly-owned-subsiduary-of-the-city-of-london-and-what-we-can-do-about-it/
asterisk2a> But it doesn’t increase the productive capacity of the economy one iota: a more expensive house doesn’t produce more intelligent children, and a higher share price doesn’t boost a company’s productivity (though it can indirectly boost its capacity to raise funds for investment). [...] Debt-financed asset purchases are thus fundamentally a Ponzi activity: // not just tight housing supply is increasing prices, but also easy credit/debt/mortgage market! // [...] ultimately, there is a limit to just how much debt individuals and corporations can take on – even with low interest rates]]>UK ZIRP NIRP QE housing market mortgage household consumer debt disposable income servitude GFC recovery wage growth Ponzi asset capital Kapital BOE credit card affordable social servicing default rate insolvency speculation unintended consequences economic history consumption secular stagnation Brexit policy fiscal monetary Mark Carney underinvestment productivity R&D Career Politicians Margaret Thatcherhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:86da1b4c426d/Tyler Cowen: "The Great Stagnation", Michael Vassar & Cowen Debate at Singularity Summit 20112016-04-08T22:09:41+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ed6gNSZRawY
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http://www.barrons.com/articles/beware-the-minuses-of-negative-interest-rates-1454543139
asterisk2asecular stagnation emerging middle class demographic bubble ageing population western world ZIRP NIRP QE distortion liquidity trap New Normal financial repression GFC economic history Richard Koo consumer debt squeezed household credit card car loan business confidence student Super Cycle servitude mortgage market asset speculative bubbles hunt for yield hot-money equity bond property BRIC China disposable income discretionary spending Frontier Markets UK USA Europe Japan Abenomics Niall Ferguson Paul Krugman Joseph Stiglitz Gini coefficient inequality distribution mobility wage growth tax evasion avoidance Wall Street profit maximisation shareholder value underinvestment austerity productivity output gap public investment productive infrastructure STEM R&D competitiveness Robert Reich balance sheet recession deleveraging debtoverhang zombie banks corporations macroprudential policy miltonfriedman JohnMaynardKeynes keynes Keynesianism Fiscal Pact monetary Schuldenbremse unconventional QT Taper money supply vehttps://pinboard.in/u:asterisk2a/b:efeaa37a2679/Richard Duncan: The Real Risk Of A Coming Multi-Decade Global Depression - YouTube2015-09-01T20:50:47+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DieONheFQ3U
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