... crisis, the collapse of Japan Inc.
after the stock market crash of 199 0, the Asian crisis of the mid- 199 0s,
the fabulous technology boom/bust cycle at the turn of the millen-
nium, and the unprecedented ... Stoke the Boom and Bust Cycle • 23
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... see. As they were
in Japan in the 198 0s and the United States in the 199 0s and the
192 0s. Monetary policy makers must end their policy of benign neg-
lect toward asset markets.
Clearly, the paradox ... excessive
uses of risk and concentration of investment. And the interplay of these
two flaws explains each of the major economic declines of the past
25...
... debts.
They borrowed money, mostly in dollars. Their assets, of course, were
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prices, occurred roughly coincident with the 199 0- 199 1 recession...
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New ... kick
the football through the uprights and join the crowd of believers. And I
hem, Doc, and I haw. And, I twist and turn. But the crowd grows more rest-
less...
... attempt to preserve
the lion’s share of the classical economic tradition.
To grossly oversimplify, the groups fared as follows: Keynesians
ruled the roost in the 195 0s and 196 0s. The 197 0s was a battleground.
Monetarists, ... conservative Washington ideologues in the
198 0s and into the 199 0s.
As we complete this decade, we are in a similar position to the mid-...
... occurred
outside of Toronto, at the end of a holiday weekend in 199 8. At the
conclusion of a hockey tournament, I was driving my eldest son and
One Practitioner’s Professional Journey • 197
midterm and an ... academia and
Washington. Minsky, unruffled, offered the world the monograph
John Maynard Keynes in the fall of 197 5.
For Minsky, the deep economic troubles...
... capital markets and the strong growth that they financed
gave rise to the long string of successes that were celebrated through-
out the 199 0s and into the middle years of the first decade of the new
millennium. ... November
199 3.
. The Price of Money.” The Journal of Cash Management, July
199 3.
. “An Economic Assessment: Contained Depression or the
Foothil...
... crisis, the collapse of Japan Inc.
after the stock market crash of 199 0, the Asian crisis of the mid- 199 0s,
the fabulous technology boom/bust cycle at the turn of the millen-
nium, and the unprecedented ... boom and bust cycle to
the way in which investment is bankrolled. He made two simple
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... gone bust
and the bank now owns the home. But the loan was for $588,000, and
the house is worth $538,000. If lots of home loans go the way of
Hanna’s loan, then the total value of the bank’s ... Price/Earnings Ratio
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first eight years of the twenty-first century. Not surprisingly, we see
that corporations found that funds were very expensive...
... disappointments. And so it was in
the early 199 0s.
Mainstream Economists and the
199 0 Soft Landing That Wasn’t
The widely held view in the late 198 0s focused on climbing wage and
price pressures. ... excessive
uses of risk and concentration of investment. And the interplay of these
two flaws explains each of the major economic declines of the past
25 ye...