Articles
Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.

Central Banks and Income Distribution: Does the Taylor Rule Push Up Rentier Incomes?
The effect of monetary policy on the functional distribution of income

Profit Inflation and Markups Once Again
Inflation and corporate profits, a further discussion, responding to Servaas Storm


“Crypto is a Fraud on the Public”: Financial Watchdog Explains Ties Between Crypto and the Banking Crisis
Dennis Kelleher, co-founder of Washington DC-based financial watchdog Better Markets, explains how Main Street gets hurt by the ongoing banking turmoil and why crypto is the last place anybody should be running to for safety.

Fatima Denton: We Need to Create Spaces to Democratize the ‘Just Transition’
“We need to look at the early warning systems in place and aspire to attain food security.”
Bank Stocks Rallied Today, But…

The Financial Crisis of 2023: Protecting Big Finance, Coming and Going
There needs to be a safe place for businesses to place their reserves and working capital

Anatomy of a Banking Crisis
There is a banking crisis. Again. Banking regulators were asleep at the switch. Again.
Can it Happen Again?


Emerging Markets and the Balance of Payments: Challenges to Growth and Sustainability
A model that captures key vulnerabilities and structural weaknesses of developing countries’ trade and production structures.
Victoria Chick (1936-2023)

The Quasi-Inflation of 2021-2022: A Case of Bad Analysis and Worse Response
Why the conventional tools of the Phillips Curve, NAIRU, potential output, and money-supply growth are useless