Interviews

Interview with The Telegraph, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, in Davos

“The situation is worse than it was in 2007. Our macroeconomic ammunition to fight downturns is essentially all used up,” said William White, the Swiss-based chairman of the OECD’s review committee and former chief economist of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS).

Publication:  The Telegraph Date:  3 February 2016

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Endless Concerns on Global Recovery

Interview by Andrew Shouler (Financial Correspondent) – Gulf News – 25 February 2015

Central bank infusions have pushed the prices of all financial assets, especially risky ones,
and a sustainable recovery cannot be built on more debt

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Central bank prophet fears QE warfare pushing world financial system out of control

Former BIS chief economist warns that QE in Europe is doomed to failure and may draw the region into deeper difficulties

The economic prophet who foresaw the Lehman crisis with uncanny accuracy is even more worried about the world’s financial system going into 2015.

Beggar-thy-neighbour devaluations are spreading to every region. All the major central banks are stoking asset bubbles deliberately to put off the day of reckoning. This time emerging markets have been drawn into the quagmire as well, corrupted by the leakage from quantitative easing (QE) in the West.

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Interview Daily Telegraph_220114

 

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