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Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.

Who does original research?
INET is all about thinking new things, and indeed academia is supposed to inspire great thoughts.
When the US last defaulted...
The government and the market
Ron Paul's Modest Proposal

A PBoC balance sheet primer
Last time, I looked at the Chinese property market. The last link in that chain of financial interlinkages is the People’s Bank of China, the Chinese central bank.

Introducing the Jazz economist
You would have thought that to be a “jazz economist” was a good thing. I first imagined a “cool cat” that would entrance the hearts and minds of the populace. Not so.
Can It Happen Again?
Was Adam Smith a communist?
Brinkmanship or Statesmanship?
Shocks
A Cold Case
Are banks firms? (continued)


Chinese property: a money view
The Chinese property market may finally be boiling over; there are certainly enough signs that the bubble is ready to burst.
The New Lombard Street
In the Crosshairs
Shadow money, still contracting
Mr. Market's Rorschach Test


These Things Take Time
Last week, I spent a few days in the Dalton-Brand Research Room, at Duke University, skimming through the

TSLF and the price of good collateral
In my last post I argued that if we want a Fed that is ready for the next crisis, we had better understand what happened to it during the last one.

Upon leaving Mount Washington
The place invites poetry. By the way, all sessions can be viewed from the – check out in particular the last session featuring Gillian Tett of the Financial Times moderating a discussion between Paul Volcker and George Soros
Anglo-Saxons versus the Germans
The Future of the Fed
