Fears of China dumping its U.S. Treasury debt holdings are overblown, because that could hurt China more than America.
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China Doesn’t Own Us
Tag Archives: Economics
Can The Fed Bend Without Bowing?
Trump wants the Fed to cut rates. The Fed may do so without necessarily bowing to presidential pressure.
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Millennials: The Misunderstood ‘Serial Killers’
Millennials are not that different from older generations, apart from the economic headwinds they have had to fight.
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Monetary Policy Simplified, Or Simply Wrong?
Modern Monetary Theory offers chalkboard answers to real-world questions, such as whether a government can borrow too much.
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Don’t Overreact To Good News
The stock market has recovered all of last fall’s losses. Don’t panic, but don’t get too excited either.
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Good As Gold? Not Exactly
The gold standard is a classic monetary idea whose time came – and went – a long time ago.
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America’s Unmentionable Deficit
Bipartisanship is hardly dead in Washington, D.C. – neither party wants to address America’s mounting mountain of debt.
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As The Birth Rate Falls, The Sky Doesn’t
Our economy and well-being need not decline merely because of an aging and potentially shrinking population.
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Student Debt Is A Drag, Not A Bubble
America’s pile of student loans won’t threaten the financial system the way bad mortgages did, but it’s still a problem.
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Drawing A New Line On Interest Rates
While a rate cut next week is nearly certain, the Fed should hold out against premature and political pressures to do more.
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