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 ...

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.

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 ...

Three Business Spectator readers contacted me directly about one topic last week – bank money creation, and how bank reserves work. Following an old journalism adage that three direct enquiries about ...

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, ...

Adopting Michael Saylor's strategy of buying for the balance sheet has clearly taken off among many publicly traded firms, substantially enriching their stock prices and shareholders. But what does it ...