Lars Christensen
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Denmark
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The Market's Goldilocks Era Is Nearing an End
It seems like a good time to take a more cautious approach to U.S. and global stocks. → Read More
Articles by Lars Christensen
Lars Christensen is the founder and CEO of Markets & Money Advisory. He was formerly the head of emerging markets research at Danske Bank. → Read More
Sweden's Central Bank Poised to Give the Krona a Boost
The rhetoric coming from the Riksbank suggests the odds of interest-rate hikes have increased. → Read More
Low Bond Yields Have Little to Do With Lax Monetary Policies
Demographic trends are having a very significant impact on savings and risk appetite. → Read More
The Real Problem Is A Nominal Problem
The Market Monetarist explanation for the Great Recession is that the Federal Reserve (and other central banks around the world) allowed monetary conditions to → Read More
PBoC Should Stop The Silliness And Float The RMB
This is morning we got this news (from Bloomberg):China's central bank conducted the biggest reverse-repurchase operations since September, adding funds to the → Read More
Oil Exporters Do Not Devalue To Boost Exports, But To Stabilize Public Finances
Yesterday Azerbaijan's central bank gave up its pegged exchange rate regime and floated the Manat. The Manat plummeted immediately and was essentially halved in value in yesterday's trading.Azerbaijan → Read More
The 'Dollar Bloc' Continues To Fall Apart
I have for sometime argued that the quasi-currency union 'Dollar Bloc' is not an Optimal Currency Area and that it therefore is doomed to fall apart.The latest 'member' of the 'Dollar Bloc' left today → Read More
St. Louis Fed: 0% Probability That Inflation Will Average More Than 2.5% Over The Next 12 Months
Laura E. Jackson, Kevin L. Kliesen, and Michael T. Owyang of the St. Louis Federal Reserve have constructed a new measure they call the price pressures measure (PPM).According the authors the → Read More
Did Bill Gross Get Some Insight From My Blog? Maybe, But It Might (Unfortunately) Be Outdated
The legendary Bill Gross - formerly of PIMCO and these days Janus Capital - does not believe in a hike from the Federal Reserve this year. This is what he has to say about the issue according to a Twe → Read More
Scott Sumners' New Book: The Midas Paradox
For years my friend Scott Sumner has been working on his book on the Great Depression. It has taken some time to get it out, but now it will soon be available (December).The book The Midas Paradox: Fi → Read More
The Alarming Drop In Chinese Nominal GDP Will Force The PBoC To Devalue Again
I am in the US on a speaking tour at the moment so I have not had a lot of time for blogging, but I thought that I just wanted to share one alarming macroeconomic number with my readers - the sharp dr → Read More
Yellen Is Transforming The U.S. Economy Into Her Favorite Textbook Model
Yellen is a keynesian - unfortunately.How a negative shock would play with Yellen in charge of the Fed.What Yellen should do. → Read More
China: It Just Got Worse
It is becoming increasingly clear that the Chinese authorities are mismanaging the economic and financial situation and the risk that the authorities will cause something to blow increases day by day. → Read More
Malaysia Has A Freely Floating Renggit
The Chinese surprise devaluation yesterday has put currencies across Asia further under pressure. This is only natural and the most stupid thing local Asian cen → Read More
Horror Graph Of The Week
If you ever read Friedman and Schwartz's "A Monetary History of the United States" you know what happens when a central bank fails to act as a lender-of-last resort in the event of a bank ru → Read More
Milton Friedman has been proven right about the “gnomes” from Brussels
The American Nobel laureate Milton Friedman (1912-2006), who would have turned 103 today, was not a big fan of the European project. → Read More
The Market's Message To Yellen: You Have Become Too Hawkish
Recently the communication from the Federal Reserve seems to have become more hawkish. It all started on July 15 when Fed chair Janet Yellen testified in front of the House Financial Services Committe → Read More
A Simple Measure Of European Political Instability
The escalation of the Greek crisis recently has made me think about the connection between the economic development, austerity and political uncertainty. Unfortunately we don't have a commonly accepte → Read More
Peggers And Floaters
There was a time when the Scandinavian countries had a currency union of their own. However, today the Nordic countries have chosen different monetary regimes. → Read More