Bad money : inflation mongers in war, pandemic, and recession / / Brendan Brown and Philippe Simonnot

• Record Nr.: UNINA9911028652603321
• Autore: Brown Brendan <1951->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2025]; ©2025
• ISBN: 9783031954252; 3-031-95425-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (240 pages)
• Collana: Economics and Finance Series
• Disciplina: 332.4/1
• Soggetti: Inflation (Finance); COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023 - Economic aspects; Recessions
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Blame a Corrupt Monetary Regime -- How to Lift the Curse of Bad Money -- PART A: Monetary Status Quo On Eve of Pandemic -- Chapter 1: A Brutal Repression of Falling Prices -- Chapter 2: The Regimes Toxic Tool Box -- Chapter 3: Bad Money-induced Fragilities on Pandemic Eve -- PART B: Inflationary Combustion -- Chapter 4: Famine, fiscal explosion and war -- Chapter 5: Pandemic spasm to Great Inflation -- Chapter 6: Four Shots of Fed inflation 2018-25 -- PART C: The Inflation Mongers -- Chapter 7: The Inflation Mongers say Transitory -- Chapter 8: Delays in Monetary Diagnosis Abet the Inflation Mongers -- PART D: Culprits and Scapegoats -- Chapter 9: Rival explanations for the Great Pandemic Inflation -- Chapter 10: Counter-factual Pandemic under Gold Standard -- Chapter 11: Lessons from Low Inflation Countries in Pandemic -- PART E: Waging War with Bad Money -- Chapter 12: Bad money in war, proxy war and economic war -- PART F: Bad Money in US Elections -- Chapter 13: A modern history of bad money in US elections 1890-2012 -- Chapter 14: Malinvestment, inflation and populism 2016-25 -- PART G: Speculation, Havens and Gold -- Chapter 15: Manias and Asset Inflation -- Chapter 16: Gold is money first, haven second -- Chapter ; 17: Life after death for the Swiss franc haven.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book argues that the blame for the 'Great Pandemic Inflation' in the US and Europe lies with serious flaws in the actual monetary regime.Money is literally out of control with no solid anchor.