Brendan Brown

Brendan Brown is a founding partner of Macro Hedge Advisors (www.macrohedgeadvisors.com) and senior fellow at Hudson Institute. As an international monetary and financial economist, consultant, and author, his roles have included Head of Economic Research at Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group. He is also a Senior Fellow of the Mises Institute. He is the author of Europe’s Century of Crises under Dollar Hegemony: A Dialogue on the Global Tyranny of Unsound Money with Philippe Simonnot. His other books include The Case Against 2 Per Cent Inflation (Palgrave, 2018) and he is publisher of “Monetary Scenarios,” Euro Crash: How Asset Price Inflation Destroys the Wealth of Nations and The Global Curse of the Federal Reserve: Manifesto for a Second Monetarist Revolution.

Articles

Gold’s Future Depends Crucially on China

10/24/2024 Mises Wire Brendan Brown

It is hard to exaggerate the importance of China in the future of gold even if the relationship falls short of monocausal. Beijing’s actual course both in economic policy and geopolitics since its...

The Damage Done By Our Inflationist Regime

08/30/2024 The Misesian Brendan Brown

Economist Brendan Brown answered our questions about interest rates, the carry trade, and why the Federal Reserve won’t fix our inflationary malaise. The Misesian (TM): Much of your work at mises.org...

Markets Quake as Monopolist Capital Pursues a Technological Coup

08/15/2024 Power & Market Brendan Brown

A serious omission is notable in the circulating list of suspects responsible for the early August quake in global risk-on markets. This is the role of “monopoly capital” in stimulating wild...

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Media

The Death of Easy Money Has Been Greatly Exaggerated

03/08/2024 Brendan Brown

Central banks have had the chutzpah to claim credit for slowing down the rise of consumer prices. The truth is they have taken advantage of the supply boost from fading pandemic dislocations to pursue continued monetary inflation.

The Dollar See-Saws between Two Views on Fiscal Explosion

11/10/2023 Brendan Brown

As the Biden administration ramps up new government spending—and budget deficits—to unheard-of peacetime levels, reality sets in. No economy and no currency can withstand this explosive assault for very long.

The Great Phony Disinflation Enters Its Finale

09/15/2023 Brendan Brown

Supposedly, the "big news" is the decline of inflation. However, the monetary and political forces driving the latest bout of inflation have not gone away.

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