Dimartino Booth refers to the speech which I gave on that occassion ” Ultra-Easy Money: Digging the Hole Deeper?”
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John Mauldin reference to Project Syndicate Piece
John Mauldin refers favourably to my suggestion that perhaps easy monetary policy is creating disinflation, as debt headwinds reduce demand and zombie companies increase supply.
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Start preparing for the next global crisis now
This article was published on the op-ed page of the Financial Times on 18 February 2018
https://www.ft.com/content/e1dc1286-0ccb-11e8-bacb-2958fde95e5e
Are We at Risk of a Global Straightjacket?
This article was published in the spring 2017 edition of “The International Economy”.
It is argued that global non-financial debt levels (public plus private)are now so high they constitute a kind of “debt trap” for monetary policy. Interest rates must be raised to prevent debt levels from rising further, but cannot be raised without triggering another crisis that we all wish to avoid. It is imperative to take measures to prevent a disorderly restructuring or repudiation of debts that can not be serviced at higher interest rates.
InternationalEconomyDebtTrapInterview with Ambrose Evans Pritchard in “The Daily Telegraph” (UK)
Interview with Jasper Vekeman in “Trends” a Flemish (Belgian) Magazine
The Dangerous Delusion of Price Stability
This article was published by Project Syndicate on 14 December 2017. Making near term price stability the objective of monetary policy is dangerous because of the unintended consequences of pursuing it, and it is delusional because it often (given supply side shocks) should not be pursued in the first place.
Global Economic and Financial Situation Worse Than 2007
William White was intervewed by Bloomberg on 13 September 2017 in Hong Kong. He gave his views about prospective global economic and financial development and the risks that continued to build up, not least debt.
Upgrading the G7 and Revamping Its Agenda
This article was published in the Spring 2017 edition of The International Economy. It is argued that the G7 should focus on identifiying longer term problems of common interest to G20 members as well as measures to remove impediments to international cooperation when seeking solutions. The G7 needs a permanet secretariat as well as measures to make it accountable for actually doing what it has promised to do.
InternationalEconomyG7On the Undesired Side Effects of Experimental Monetary Policy
In this conversation on 25 July 2017 with Jesse Felder of The Felder Report, Bill discusses where his contrarian economic philosophy comes from, and how it leads him to worry a bit more than most about the undesired side effects of experimental monetary policy and its possible end games.
On the Undesired Side Effects of Experimental Monetary Policy