Daniel Lacalle: More Fiscal Stimulus Will Not Solve Europe’s Economic Problems
“One thing that we have learned in the European Union is that revenue measures don’t work”
“One thing that we have learned in the European Union is that revenue measures don’t work”
QE-Infinity marches on…
Early anecdotal signs from China suggest that the desire to avoid public transportation may be more impactful than declines in commuting
81 cathedrals and monasteries, 41 castles, and 33 ports
‘They’re getting paid twice as much for unemployment benefits as they were paid to work. You don’t need a PhD in economics to figure out that that is a very strong disincentive for going back to your old job’
“I look at all asset classes, all countries, and everything, and the cheapest asset class I see right now are commodities”
A map of the world, from the perspective of a fish
Things could go terribly wrong, but everyone knows that, including the Fed
‘National Debt Hole’
“They cannot clearly separate between what is a fiscal operation and what they are doing now, which is quasi-fiscal operations.”