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Further monetary stimulus risks woeful asset returns

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAY 2016
... calls in some circles - most recently from 'bond king' Bill Gross - for central banks to consider US economist Milton Friedman's helicopter money theory, whereby monetary stimulus is provided straight to the pockets of consumers via tax rebates or other ...

Round and round we go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2015
... have a greater sense of job security and income permanence. A theory developed by Nobel prize-winning economist Milton Friedman known as "Permanent Income Hypothesis". Similarly, while the unemployment rate ticked up to 6.0% from a downwardly revised ...

A fantabulous set of jobs numbers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2015
... difference. This plays very well in accord with the "permanent income hypothesis" formulated by Nobel-winning economist Milton Friedman. More full-time jobs brings about expectations of more permanent income that, in turn, encourages spending (but pretty ...

Fed policy options galore

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 AUG 2011
... been an effective weapon against deflation." Option 8. "A money-financed tax cut is essentially equivalent to Milton Friedman's famous "helicopter drop" of money." It's quite a long (but very informative) piece and I have run out of writing space. Read ...

Beautiful set of numbers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2008
... this year. And this is what matters most based on what we economists refer to as the permanent income hypothesis. Milton Friedman developed this hypothesis back in 1957, arguing that consumption is based on what people consider as their normal income ...

Three wise economists

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2008
... their interests, local government councils trying to maximise their interests and so on. When the crunch came, Milton Friedman's monetarists approach was applied. In a capsule, Friedman argued that raising the money supply could increase employment and ...
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