Temporary Upswings and Credit Markets: Looking at Asia
The markets are experiencing a temporary upswing due to the velocity of the buffer zones that central banks are creating. Those buffer zones are trying to create a unity of response and convergence. The monetization and credit growth in Asia is uplifting its prospects...Capital Markets and the Velocity of Buffer Zones: Recent Economic Developments Using QE Lenses
In the summer of 2011 we published some commentaries about the development of financial black holes. The argument of this commentary goes as follows: Central banks and governments around the world adopted the Powell doctrine of overwhelming force to defeat the enemy...“Collapse, Avoid a Relapse, Don’t Relax”: Prospects, Downside Risks, Central Banks, and Existential Threats
The words quoted in the title above, were pronounced by Christine Lagarde (the head of the IMF) at the Davos annual economic conference. She was referring to the EU experience in 2012. Without a doubt, the Euro zone almost collapsed last year, and her recommendation...The Prospects for Real Estate: Part II of Assessing the Prospects for 2013
In this week’s commentary we offer our assessment of a positive outlook for the real estate sector in 2013. We believe that real estate will outperform most – if not all – of fixed income investments in this environment of financial repression. We anticipate all real...The Triumph of Central Banking?
It is an honor to host Chairman Paul Volcker’s speech on Central Banking, as this week’s commentary. The speech was given in 1990 during the Per Jacobsson Foundation Lectures series. During his tenure as Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank, the US regained its...Sign Up for Our Publications
