The Negative Impact of Prohibiting and Restricting Honduras’ Special Economic Zones

By Olav Dirkmaat on October 1, 2024

The Honduran Supreme Court of Justice declared the law that underpins the Honduran special economic zones (ZEDEs) unconstitutional with retroactive effects.

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The U.S. Money Market Is in Distress

By Jon Aldekoa on March 15, 2023

U.S. banks are increasingly resorting to the Fed’s discount window

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Brazil’s and Argentina’s Proposal for a “Latin American Euro”

By Daniel Fernández on February 13, 2023

A freshly proposed Latin American common currency is making an appearance in the continent in which most countries resemble Greece

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A Chronicle of Financial Repression (2008 to 2023)

By Daniel Fernández on January 24, 2023

How do we hold bureaucrats responsible for eroding the purchasing power of our money?

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US Companies’ Earnings Plummet

By Daniel Fernández on November 18, 2022

US companies see their profits fall by 10 percent in two quarters

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Nobel Prize in Economics 2022: The Failures of the Diamond-Dybvig Model

By Daniel Fernández on October 28, 2022

The Nobel Prize in Economics is becoming increasingly politicized

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Nobel Prize in Economics 2022: A Guide for Dummies

By Daniel Fernández on October 24, 2022

A quick guide to understand the Diamond-Dybvig model of two of the three recent Nobel Prize winners

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A Guide to the UK Financial Panic

By Daniel Fernández on October 7, 2022

The 2022 recession claims its first victim: the UK financial sector

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Inflation or Deflation: Which Is More Likely?

By Olav Dirkmaat on September 2, 2022

Last year, I wrote that the current inflation has a fiscal rather than a monetary origin. In other words, we would not have the same inflation in the absence of fiscal stimulus, while we would have the same inflation in the absence of monetary stimulus. For the same reason, I have affirmed and continue to affirm that I view it as unlikely for current inflation rates to begin to consistently exceed two digits, as was the case in the 1970s. This same pandemic fiscal stimulus has caused serious problems in a variety of markets: sea, land and air freight, electronic products and their components, automobiles, and others, which have added fuel to the inflationary fire. This is the origin of the current inflation we are experiencing, and I will try to make my case with data. The Current Inflation In recent months, the rise in the general price level has…

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Stagflation Returns to the United States

By Luis Pedro Mendizabal on August 25, 2022

Recession and inflation are already here. Will unemployment follow?

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