Niccolo Caldararo

6 Questions 30 Answers 0 Followers

Questions related from Niccolo Caldararo

Has the Fed's expansio of capital only driven speculation?

The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis reported that US bank deposits have soared as the Federal Reserve has "printed money" (increased liquidity) since 2007 (see chart from the Financial Times...

05 January 2018 5,041 3 View

Can central banks unwind their support for the economy, with the US Fed at $4.5 tn alone?

Michael Mackenzie's last Sunday The Long View article, (FT July 2, 2017, "Taper tantrum II lacks summer blockbuster status,") describes the conditions that indicate that the credit crisis is not...

15 July 2017 5,956 1 View

Is the mania for debt today creating the instability the Fuggers created beginning in the 16th century?

While the IMF estimates public debt at over 55 tn dollars, private debt is much more in the USA private debt is twice the public debt. Academics and financial analysts alike have been treating...

03 April 2015 7,905 7 View

Are FICO scores partly responsible for the credit crisis?

John Gapper (FT "There is no such thing as the banking profession" Feb 13, 2014) argues that the credit crisis may have been made worse by the introduction of mass reliance on credit scores like...

18 February 2014 7,768 6 View

Is there a relationship between the value of asset classes and inequality?

Marcel Lenoir (1913) found that the price of gold was the same in 1800 as in 1910, with a 2.8% increase from the mines of the world. Since 1970 gold has dramatically increased and yet inequality...

08 January 2014 7,000 7 View

What can the controversy over California and Australia gold tell us about the current failure of the Fed to end the credit crisis?

On Economic Anthropology of our time The torrent of media comments on the Fed and its role in supplying support for the American and world economies has resulted in a number of disputes over...

24 September 2013 2,996 1 View