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Posts By: peter
Case Study: Housing Demand and Supply in 2015
Housing Market Update September 2015 There are eleven buyers chasing every house for sale in the UK. Supply has fallen to…
Read MoreExtract: Two Misconceptions about Money Creation
source The vast majority of money held by the public takes the form of bank deposits. But where the stock of…
Read MoreArticle: Did QE boost Bank Lending?
source July 2015 Nick Butt, Rohan Churm & Michael McMahon When faced by a slowing economy and contracting credit what policy should be…
Read MoreArticle: What Are Bank Reserve Assets For?
source IMF THE PURPOSE OF RESERVE REQUIREMENTS (RRs) A. Prudential RRs ensure that banks hold a certain proportion of high quality, liquid…
Read MoreArticle: The FED builds up reserve assets
source A quick review of bank reserves In the U.S., all depository institutions (DIs) must retain a percentage of certain deposits…
Read MoreDebate: Should the higher tax rate go up or down?
source The number of people paying 40p tax has risen steadily from just over 1.7 million in 1993/4 to 4.4 million…
Read MoreStart here: Aggregate Supply
Aggregate supply curves plot the relationship between inflation (or the price level) and output from the suppliers (company’s) perspective (handout and powerpoint)….
Read MoreStart here: Aggregate Demand
It is one of our eternal economic truths that without sufficient aggregate spending we can have no economic growth and no…
Read MoreArticle: The FSA – The Dog that Didn’t Bite
source Guardian It was the watchdog that didn’t bark. When the Financial Services Authority (FSA) was created in its current form by…
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