I recently listened to a podcast and part of the conversation included banking, money and credit. The host of the show was elaborating on how banks create money through the use of the "Money ...

A simple search on Google indicates that Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway has roughly $167 billion in cash or cash equivalents. That one of the world’s foremost investors has so much cash on hand ...

The Wall Street Journal’s Anna Hirtenstein reported last week that U.S. companies “are sitting on a record amount of cash.” According to the Journal reporter, the number is $6.84 trillion. To ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Here’s an elegant solution to the problem of the US’s missing money multiplier. Just declare it doesn’t exist.

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Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Alternative title: the slow death of the money multiplier. Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s Michael Hanson and ...

If you are teaching or taking an introductory macroeconomics course this fall, you will, at some point, encounter the money multiplier. The multipier posits that there is a stable ratio between M2, ...