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The credit cycle is the expansion and contraction of access to credit over time. [1] Some economists, including Barry Eichengreen , Hyman Minsky , and other Post-Keynesian economists , and members of the Austrian school , regard credit cycles as the fundamental process driving the business cycle .
The credit channel affects the economy by altering the amount of credit firms and/or households have access to in equilibrium. Factors that reduce the availability of credit reduce agents' spending and investment, which leads to a reduction in output. In short, the main difference between the interest rate channel and the credit channel ...
Austrian School theorists generally argue that inherently damaging and ineffective central bank policies, including unsustainable expansion of bank credit through fractional reserve banking, are the predominant cause of most business cycles, as they tend to set artificial interest rates too low for too long, resulting in excessive credit ...
The pandemic-era expansion helped lift 3 million children out of poverty, according to the US Census Bureau, which said that most parents used the credit payments for everyday, crucial expenses ...
The Daily Yonder takes a closer look at a proposed expansion of the child tax credit that would make families with lower incomes eligible.
An estimated 2 million California children in lower income families would benefit from the expansion of the federal child tax credit bill now moving through Congress, according to Washington’s ...
The credit theory of money, initiated by Joseph Schumpeter, asserts the central role of banks as creators and allocators of the money supply, and distinguishes between "productive credit creation" (allowing non-inflationary economic growth even at full employment, in the presence of technological progress) and "unproductive credit creation ...
From the far-right, some Republicans were wary of the child tax credit expansion portion of the deal. House Freedom Caucus chair Bob Good (R-Va.) spearheaded an effort to amend the bill to change ...