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What Keynes Wrote about The Phillips Curve

…Mike Kimel recalled, Keynes also noted that the Phillips curve becomes vertical during a hyperinflation. Unfortunately he makes this point Unfortunately it is expressed in terms of the obscure notation…

Oil Price Speculation

…of petroleum are the result of simple supply and demand curves (which are both extremely price inelastic so almost vertical) and not of speculation. He argues that speculation can only…

Contra General Theory Pro "The General Theory …"

…the painfully defined elasticities are not constant. One of those pointless equations is better known as the Phillips curve. Keynes specifically notes that it is vertical in the case of…

Singapore and healthcare

…running the public hospitals and specialty centers as private companies. The Health Ministry says that these clusters “provide cooperation amongst the institutions within the cluster, foster vertical integration of services,…

Bank risk models and regulation

…assets. A vicious cycle ensues of vertical price falls prompting further selling. Liquidity vanishes down a black hole. … Policy makers cannot claim to be surprised by all of this….

The Fed and Elections

…The vertical grey lines are Presidential elections. It shows that there is no significant difference between actual fed funds and the policy index in the period leading up to elections…