When people talk about gold, they usually talk about the gold price. But there are a few other key gold market metrics that often go unmenti...

Noah Smith asks what would happen if the Fed kept interest rates at zero forever. Specifically: Suppose that the Fed targets only one ...

The discussion on own-rates, the natural rate, and Sraffa cropped again. Andrew Lainton blogged here , followed by Nick Rowe here , Daniel...

The Austrian vs Keynesian end of the blogosphere often battle over the existence of a natural rate of interest. The Keynesian side typically...

James Hamilton at Econbrowser had an interesting series of posts ( here and here ) on determining the effect of naive commodity index funds...

I commented on the blog Social Democracy for the 21st Century: A Post Keynesian Perspective in a post called Hayek’s Natural Rate on Capita...

Commented on David Glasner's Once Again The Stock Market Shows its Love for Inflation : The only problem here is the one that we talke...