Is the Bank of Canada more likely to hike interest rates, as slack evaporates, or to cut interest rates, following the Fed?
Tag Archives: Carl Weinberg
Why negative interest rates don’t work
A tree is growing in the forest… when do you cut it down to harvest its wood? When it dies and threatens to fall on your house.
Depopulating economy = falling wages?
In Japan’s depopulating economy, productivity is falling—not rising—and so are wages.
Surveys We Trust
Reliable surveys confirm the Euro Zone economy is not recovering.
Time to lose sleep over world trade slowdown?
We are on the alert for more bad global economic news in the months ahead if the drop in world trade continues.
When the jobless rate is meaningless…
The record low German unemployment rate does not reflect a truly tight supply of labor.
Draghi’s little fibs
Practically speaking, no one should expect any ECB tightening at all until some time in 2022.
China will not bow to U.S. bullying
Team Trump has set off the mother of all trade wars with China by making a series of gross miscalculations.
Webinar: Global Slowdown – Blossoming Or All But Done?
Join Carl Weinberg for a discussion of the causes of the current global economic slowdown, the prospects for recovery and the implications for financial markets.
Sometimes, you need a better plan
If the BoJ’s QQME with YCC were going to do something, it would have happened—or at least, begun—by now.