Eric Lonergan is a macro hedge fund manager, economist, and writer. His most recent book is Supercharge Me, co-authored with Corinne Sawers. He is also author of the international bestseller, Angrynomics, co-written with Mark Blyth, and published by Agenda. It was listed on the Financial Times must reads for Summer 2020. Prior to Angrynomics, he has written Money (2nd ed) published by Routledge. He has written for Foreign Affairs, The Financial Times, and The Economist. He also advises governments and policymakers. He first advocated expanding the tools of central banks to including cash transfers to households in the Financial Times in 2002. In December 2008, he advocated the policy as the most efficient way out of recession post-financial crisis, contributing to a growing debate over the need for ‘helicopter money’.
Harvard Business Review, January 2015
With Mark Blyth: governments should exploit the excess return of equities over bonds to buy assets for 80% of the population
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This way of framing the problem also provides an administrative alternative for the ECB to effect cash transfers. Rather than posting checks to households, it could launch an ATLTRO - a TLTRO for all. Under thi...
We need more cash, not less.
Many economists just assume that central banks have hit “the zero bound” on interest rates and that conventional policy is thereby exhausted. Take Ken Rogoff’s bizarre proposal as a...
In Foreign Affairs, Mark Blyth and I map out a plan to end recessions and broaden equity ownership - without raising taxes. Read the full article here....
Talk at the IIEA in Dublin: Can QE save the Eurozone?
About the Speech:
In this address, Eric Lonergan clarified the distinction between monetary and fiscal policy and demonstrated how European institutio...
About the Speech:
In this address, Eric Lonergan clarified the distinction between monetary and fiscal policy and demonstrated how European institutions can create an opportunity for innovation in mone...