Brendan Brown
Brendan Brown is a founding partner of Macro Hedge Advisors (www.macrohedgeadvisors.com) and senior fellow at Hudson Institute. As an international monetary and financial economist, consultant, and author, his roles have included Head of Economic Research at Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group. He is also a Senior Fellow of the Mises Institute. He is the author of Europe’s Century of Crises under Dollar Hegemony: A Dialogue on the Global Tyranny of Unsound Money with Philippe Simonnot. His other books include The Case Against 2 Per Cent Inflation (Palgrave, 2018) and he is publisher of “Monetary Scenarios,” Euro Crash: How Asset Price Inflation Destroys the Wealth of Nations and The Global Curse of the Federal Reserve: Manifesto for a Second Monetarist Revolution.
Articles by Brendan Brown
Two monetary and currency paradoxes emerge as the war rages.First, there is likely an immediate episode of some monetary disinflation, never mind the widespread concern about a looming jump in consumer prices. Second, the currencies...
We have been here before – the Fed monetizing a productivity surge. There are two important differences this time, though, full of danger. No wonder the dollar and gold are emitting stark red warning signals.First, the monetization has...
Inflations have an inbuilt mechanism which works to burn them out.Government (including the central bank) can thwart the mechanism if they resort to further monetary injections of sufficient power.Hence inflations can run for a long time...
The present global plague of asset price inflation — with its origins in Federal Reserve quantitative easing policies and featuring much irrational exuberance — is transitioning into a new phase. Some optimistic commentators suggest a...
