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Nine Spades Are a Lump of Leets

capital (we get away from the notions ectoplasm or lump of leets representations), then, as we mentioned, there is no way to measure the quantity of capital except by calculating…

Capital Flows and Financial Crises

by Joseph Joyce Capital Flows and Financial Crises The impact of capital flows on the incidence of financial crises has been recognized since the Asian crisis of 1997-98. Inflows before…

Kudlow Fails to Grasp the Keynes-Ramsey Rule

…expected pre-tax capital return are associated with capital taxation. Third, consumption growth appears to be pretty elastic to the after-tax capital return (i.e., capital is elastically supplied), even while it…

Read Jeff Madrik

…impossible to maintain fixed exchange rates (in spite of the usual inflation differentials) without capital controls. The EC faced a choice between reintroducing capital controls or the Euro. Yes also…