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I wrote a piece in the New York Times that appeared yesterday along with Mark Thoma and John Cochrane. The question was "Should the Fed Risk Inflation to Spur Growth?" My answer was that the Fed should always keep an eye on inflation as…

I was on RT's Capital Account on Monday afternoon, talking about the euro crisis yet again. The video is below but I have a few comments before you watch it. In the video, I say Europe can continue dithering for quite a while. There is…

I was on the Alyona Show panel these past two Mondays talking to Alyona and Reason's Anthony Randazzo about the debt crises in the US and Europe. As much as we tried to find something we could disagree on, we ended up agreeing a lot in both…

I would submit then that the problem is the debt. This is true right across the developed economies. Until the debt is reduced, global growth will be slow and that makes economies susceptible to recession. As much as the President wants to…

Here's the video from last night's capital Account with Lauren Lyster and Demetri Kofinas. Everyone keeps acting like this crisis is about to boil over and take the world economy with it. It certainly could. More likely though, we will…

I spoke to Paul Waldie and Brian Milner of the Globe & Mail on BNN's headline on Monday. The big story was JPMorgan Chase and the London Whale trades. JPMorgan Chase's CEO Jamie Dimon, as the leading lobbyists for the hands-off…

Nationalism is rising throughout Europe as we are expecting far-right parties to now enter parliaments in greece and france to add to the fringe parties in Finland, Austria and the Netherlands. In Germany, the Piratenpartei, another fringe…

It encourages me to see Portugal fade from the headlines instead of becoming the next Greece. But it discourages me to see Spain take Portugal's place as the next Greece. All the while, the root problem has been the same: the common…

Here is a video of my latest appearance on Capital Account with Lauren Lyster. We spoke specifically about the situation in Europe; and that means Greece in the first instance. We also talked a lot about the ECB's LTRO program which I see…

On Tuesday night, I spoke to Amanda Lang and Kevin O'Leary about Greece. The question was whether they were going to default and leave the euro zone. My response is that the euro zone is not ready politically for a default and so I think…