Commentaries (some of them cheeky or provocative) on economic topics by Ralph Musgrave. This site is dedicated to Abba Lerner. I disagree with several claims made by Lerner, and made by his intellectual descendants, that is advocates of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT). But I regard MMT on balance as being a breath of fresh air for economics.
Sunday, 16 October 2016
Random charts III.
Australian residential dwelling stock value to GDP ratio 1880-2016.
Private nonfinancial debt as % of GDP.
Contributions to EU budget.
Fed remittances to the Treasury.
Gender gap in PhDs.
GDP losses due to pollution.
England: population of the North as % of total population.
The effect of QE.
Which countries host the most refugees?
Which nationalities consider religion important?
I keep expecting Australia and Canada to hit the banking buffers any day soon,they seem on a one way ticket to a crisis by the looks of that 2nd graph.
ReplyDeleteThanks for posting them all.