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The Limits of Economic Experimentation

Pacifica Partners Spring 2016 Quarterly Commentary: This quarter’s newsletter gets its title from the growing global trend towards the acceptance of negative interest rates as a component of mainstream economic policy.  Negative interest rate policy (NIRP) is increasingly being seen as an act of economic desperation by the markets. Currently, the central banks of Europe,…

Debating the Return of Inflation

When the world’s central banks decided to undertake a zero interest-rate policy and then to inject money into the global banking system to levels that were previously unforeseen, there was widespread fear that this would eventually unleash an inflationary firestorm. Our take was, and is, that these worries were misplaced because ...   Debating the…
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