Push for More Stimulus Ignores Risks of Japan’s Experience
Oct 2016 Issue
This September has been an eventful month for China. Apart from defending its assertion to vast areas of the South China Sea, it also hosted world leaders at the G20 Summit to discuss ways to raise global economic growth rates. All of the political leaders agreed that they needed to…
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Oct 2016 Issue
Pacifica Partners Spring 2016 Quarterly Commentary: This quarter’s newsletter gets its title from the growing global trend towards the acceptance of negative interest rates as a component of mainstream economic policy. Negative interest rate policy (NIRP) is increasingly being seen as an act of economic desperation by the markets. Currently,…
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