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Asleep at the wheel

May 2, 2022May 3, 2022 AustralianActuary Economics inflation, Interest rates

Being asleep at the wheel. Being like a rabbit caught in the car’s headlights and too frightened to move. Struck dumb. Several phrases, none of them polite, but each of them could be applied to the senior executives of Australia’s Reserve Bank, the RBA. No competent person in a position of authority at the RBA would keep in place the current monetary policy settings.

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Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon

April 21, 2022April 21, 2022 AustralianActuary Economics inflation

Milton Friedman coined the phrase “inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon”. He would have been aghast, I think, if he were still around to see this chart of the US monetary base:

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