Pulse: Europe
The War of the Words: December 2022 Spotlight
Demonization and its economic consequences, and a peek ahead to the 118th Congress
Change of Edge - EconVue Spotlight October 2022
Are central banks overreacting to inflation? Are we in for a positive surprise?
EconVue Spotlight January 2022 - Skating, On Thin Ice
In just a few weeks, the Winter Olympics will be held in Beijing. Both Japan and China were unlucky in their timing; these Games without an audience must be bittersweet for participants as well. For me personally, they bring back memories.
Review of Hostile Money: Currencies in Conflict
“The purposes of money are constant, the way it operates varies hugely” says Paul Wilson at the outset – and few authors have illustrated this as interestingly as he does. Impressively erudite, he never lets his command of detail hold up the story, so that the reader is swept up in the stormy history of money’s role in some of the greatest social, political and military conflicts from ancient Rome to the cyber warfare of the 21st century.
The Power of Money: How Ideas about Money Shaped the Modern World
Forrest Capie, Professor Emeritus of Economic History, Cass Business School and author of the modern History of the Bank of England writes:
“Robert Pringle has written a book on money that is different from any other.”
He “draws on a long life in the worlds of money, banking, and central banking and on his wide-ranging interests beyond economics and the social sciences to history and the arts to reflect on the strange relationship money and society have on and to each other.”
My Volcker anecdotes: The risk and reality of hubris
Of all my memories of Paul Volcker – I first met him in the early 1970s when we was UnderSecretary for Monetary Affairs at the US Treasury and I was editing The Banker – four are particularly persistent: