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Euros & Dollars: A Hard Look at the Economy in 2024

Sven R. Larson December 30, 2023

Next year is shaping up to be tough, both for the euro zone and European countries outside of it. How bad will the recession be? Our forecast goes beyond conventional economic wisdom to find out.

Euros & Dollars: How Europe Abandoned Monetary Conservatism

Sven R. Larson December 28, 2023

What can the past 20 years tell us about Europe’s economic future?

Euros & Dollars: When Central Bankers Think Alike

Sven R. Larson December 19, 2023

European central banks agree that inflation may bump up again in 2024. But their explanations for this are oddly incongruent. What is really going on here?

The End of the Rising Interest Rates

Sven R. Larson November 2, 2023

With two months left in 2023, the Federal Reserve and the ECB have struck a note of confidence with debt-market investors. This gives Europe hope as they slide into a recession, but will it help America avoid a fiscal crisis?

Credit Crunch Spells Bad News for Europe

Sven R. Larson October 26, 2023

Europe’s banks are in credit-crunch mode. The ECB’s decision to keep interest rates unchanged is meant to help, but it also raises the white flag on inflation.

Bank of England Hikes Interest Rate

Sven R. Larson August 4, 2023

The Bank of England anticipates that economic policy will successfully reduce inflation by half in the British economy before the end of this year.

“Our Europe, Ourselves”: Designs for the New Euro Banknotes

Tamás Orbán July 15, 2023

One of the design ideas focuses on cultural heritage. The rest either pander to our individualistic and inflated sense of self-importance through vaguely defined European ‘values’ or pick comfortably neutral topics, such as landscapes or animals.

Fiscal Forecast: Sweden in the Euro? Part II

Sven R. Larson July 6, 2023

A euro-zone membership would put Sweden on a fast track to a fiscal crisis like the one in the 1990s. That would be bad: the country cannot absorb the fallout from repeating its disastrous mistakes from back then.

Fiscal Forecast: When the IMF Destroyed Greece, Part II

Sven R. Larson June 29, 2023

The Greek economy was almost destroyed because politicians prioritized the Greek budget deficit over the Greek economy, and because economists at the IMF were not properly educated.

Fiscal Forecast Europe: Is Inflation Here to Stay?

Sven R. Larson May 25, 2023

If neither wages nor energy prices can explain why the ECB is right in being concerned about persistent inflation, then what can explain it? There is a candidate that nobody wants to talk about: taxes.

Tag: ECB

Euros & Dollars: A Hard Look at the Economy in 2024

Euros & Dollars: How Europe Abandoned Monetary Conservatism

Euros & Dollars: When Central Bankers Think Alike

The End of the Rising Interest Rates

Credit Crunch Spells Bad News for Europe

Bank of England Hikes Interest Rate

“Our Europe, Ourselves”: Designs for the New Euro Banknotes

Fiscal Forecast: Sweden in the Euro? Part II

Fiscal Forecast: When the IMF Destroyed Greece, Part II

Fiscal Forecast Europe: Is Inflation Here to Stay?

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