Inflation Targeting Retards Economic Growth

By Dick Forslund and Mazibuko Jara20 September 2010At any rise in aggregate demand, the Bank increases interest rates.Last week, the Reserve Bank waded into the battles between workers and employers over wage demands. Its monetary policy statement expressed concern...
The Spectre of the Eurozone Debt Crisis

The Spectre of the Eurozone Debt Crisis

Does the chaos in the Eurozone signal the beginning of the end of the Euro?Four years and a couple of trillion dollars worth of rescue packages after the eruption of the sub-prime crisis in 2007, we are nowhere near resolution of the “North Atlantic Financial Crisis”....

‘Sound Finance’ Imperilling Democracy | by EPW

What if debt deflation strikes, will the Eurozone’s financial elite still bay for sound finance? Finance capital’s imposition of fiscal austerity on both sides of the Atlantic – and this at a time when private consumption and investment are stagnating – is pushing the...