Category Archives: Italian debt crisis

After the Crash:Rediscovering Keynes and the origins of quantitative easing (2nd posting)

Posted on September 9, 2016 by haroldchorneyeconomist

By Harold R.Chorney Professor of Political economy, Concordia University Montréal, Québec Preface: More than twenty five years ago I began to write about problems of public finance.( Chorney, 1984) At the time that I began to do so, I never … Continue reading →

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The Owl of Minerva takes flight at dusk:The anti-Keynesian era is drawing to a close

Posted on May 2, 2013 by haroldchorneyeconomist

The Owl of Minerva takes flight at dusk: The anti-Keynesian era is drawing to a close By Harold R. Chorney, Professor of political economy, Concordia university, Montreal.( I originally submitted this to the New York Times as an op ed … Continue reading →

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Italian electorate rejects austerity by overwhelming margin

Posted on February 26, 2013 by haroldchorneyeconomist

The Italian electorate has overwhelmingly rejected the austerity which its technocratic government led by Mario Monti with the backing of Germany had imposed on the country. Mr. Monti’s party according to La Repubblicca received a mere 10.5 % of the … Continue reading →

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Eurozone unemployment rises to 11.1 %.A major stimulus is required.

Posted on July 2, 2012 by haroldchorneyeconomist

Eurostat has released their latest unemployment data and it is ugly. Unemployment has risen again to 11.1 % overall for the Eurozone led by a rise in Spain as well as a small rise in France. Only a major co-ordinated … Continue reading →

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Supreme Court upholds Obama Care; Europe continues to debate how to rescue economy from bond market blackmail

Posted on June 28, 2012 by haroldchorneyeconomist

The Supreme Court in a 5 to 4 decision with Chief Justice Roberts siding with the majority has upheld most of the Affordable Care Act by ruling its provisions constitutional under the federal powers of taxation. Four of the liberal … Continue reading →

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On Debt follies and deficit hysteria:intelligent voices from the past

Posted on April 12, 2012 by haroldchorneyeconomist

Among the many 1000 books in my library is a macro economics text, Macroeconomics:The measurement,analysis and control of aggregate economic activity, 3rd edition from 1968 written by Thomas Dernburg who was then  Professor of Economics at Oberlin college and Duncan … Continue reading →

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S+P Downgrade Warning on European Sovereign Debt May throw Spanner in the Works

Posted on December 5, 2011 by haroldchorneyeconomist

When it really counted in the past in the lead-up to the financial crisis S+P and other ratings agencies failed to warn about the quality or lack thereof of the asset backed financial derivatives that caused so much disaster in … Continue reading →

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Trade balances, debt to GDP and unemployment rates of some European countries of interest

Posted on November 9, 2011 by haroldchorneyeconomist

Trade as a percentage of the GDP and unemployment rates selected European countries, and debt to GDP ratios. X                     Country                     … Continue reading →

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After the Crash:Rediscovering Keynes and the origins of quantitative easing (2nd posting)

Posted on June 3, 2011 by haroldchorneyeconomist

By Harold R.Chorney Professor of Political economy, Concordia University Montréal, Québec Preface: More than twenty five years ago I began to write about problems of public finance.( Chorney, 1984) At the time that I began to do so, I never … Continue reading →

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