…purchasing power of society. When social capital is well-developed, capital investment is supported. He puts forth an argument with the implication that expansionary monetary policy designed to bolster investment will…
by Rebecca Wilder Follow up to yesterday’s post: Euro area consumption and Investment in Q2 2013 Yesterday I illustrated the unsustainable accounting growth engine of imports occurring in the euro…
…investment. This is what I call the “lump of money” fallacy (a.k.a. the loanable funds model). Ask yourself: If you transfer $10K from your bank account to mine for a…
…investment at interest rate zero too low for full employment. In the simplest case, investment in period 1 is equal to zero. Now consider government spending G. First and totally…
…approach, it is assumed that residential ivnestment is always exactly proportional to non residential investment. In the old approach residential and non residential investment were considered separately. In the pseudo…
…need for dollar-denominated assets. The status of the dollar contributes to the surplus in U.S. international investment income despite its negative net international investment position (NIIP). But France also has…
…for the immediate future. Non-Residential Investment Falls at a 2.2 Percent Rate Non-residential investment fell for the first time since the third quarter of 2021. The biggest factor was a…
by Joseph Joyce The Return of FDI Last year’s collapse in foreign direct investment was seen by many as the first stage of a period of retrenchment. Political pressure to…
…purchases of investments were rendered illiquid, this might seriously impede new investment, so long as alternative ways in which to hold his savings are available to the individual. This is…
Lifted from a note on energy from Reader rjs comes a link filled narrative on oil and production issues for oil. He deals with one aspect of drilling for “energy…