Escape from the Central Bank Trap: How to Escape from the $20 Trillion Monetary Expansion Unharmed

Event Monetary Policy
Event Monetary Policy

September 26, 2017 Escape from the Central Bank Trap: How to Escape from the $20 Trillion Monetary Expansion Unharmed

Central banks do not print growth. 

Tuesday, Sep 26, 2017

11:00 am - 12:00 pm

The Heritage Foundation

214 Massachusetts Ave NE
Washington, DC
20002

Author

Daniel Lacalle

Ph.D.

Daniel Lacalle, Ph.D. is an economist, chief investment officer at Tressis Gestión, and professor of global economy. In addition to a Ph.D. in economics, he holds the certified international investment analyst title, a post graduate degree in IESE, and a master’s degree in economic investigation (UCV). A member of the advisory board of the Rafael del Pino Foundation and professor at IE business school and the Institute of Stock Market Studies, he was ranked one of the Top 20 most influential economists in the world in 2016 (Richtopia).

Description

Central banks do not print growth. 

The financial crisis was much more than the result of an excess of risk. The same policies that created each subsequent bust are the ones that have been implemented in recent years. In Escape from the Central Bank Trap, Dr. Daniel Lacalle offers solutions for the threat of zero-interest rates and excessive liquidity.

He argues that the United States needs to take the first step, defending sound money and a balanced budget, recovering the middle-class by focusing on increasing disposable income. The rest will follow. Our future should not be low growth and high debt. Cheap money becomes very expensive in the long run.    

Dr. Lacalle also analyzes the many fallacies associated with modern, activist, inflationist central banking and misguided economic policies more generally.