Showing posts with label Monetary Policy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Monetary Policy. Show all posts
Monday, August 18, 2008

Podcasts

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John Taylor on Monetary Policy El-Erian Says Banks Face Harder Time Raising Capital El-Erian's latest book, ``When Markets Collide: Inve...
Sunday, April 20, 2008

Economic Prediction of the Day

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Comment on tomorrow’s announcement by the Treasury and Bank of England
Friday, April 11, 2008

Breaking News- Anti- Penny Lobby Endorses Obama

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Citizens for Retiring the Penny
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Sunday, March 30, 2008

Picturesque Poverty and Monetary Policy in Haiti

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For the picturesque poverty see the Tyler Cowen's post . For the monetary policy see the Letter of Intent of Haitian government - they...
Friday, March 28, 2008

Quote of the Day

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If the government underwrites all the risks, call it socialism. If it underwrites only the failures, call it foolishness . - Allan Meltzer
Thursday, March 27, 2008

Common Sense and Nonsense on Global Imbalances

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This forum, featuring Dr. Joseph Stiglitz, Dr. Jose Antonio Ocampo , and Dr. Mark Weisbrot, was organized by the Center for Economic and Po...
Wednesday, March 26, 2008

The Fed’s New Alphabet Soup- Vincent Reinhart

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First, the mnemonics. On March 14, the Federal Reserve extended access to its discount window to a non-depository, Bear Stearns, for the fir...

Three Questions to Bernanke from Carmen Reinhart

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From Reinhart's congressional testimony last month; First, Federal Reserve policy easing in the last five months of last year seemed to ...
Sunday, March 23, 2008

Could it turn out like those times?

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Depression, You Say? Check Those Safety Nets ; “I used to give a lecture explaining that the Great Depression could never happen now because...

More sub-prime crisis explainers

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Can’t Grasp Credit Crisis? Join the Club ; “We’re exposing parts of the capital markets that most of us had never heard of,” Ethan Harris, a...
Saturday, March 22, 2008

Explainer of the Day

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How the Fed took the money out of monetary policy Money creation and the Federal Reserve Creating Money (or Jobs) Out of Thin Air First and...

Consequences of Falling

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Where is Bernanke taking us? - BusinessWeek cover story podcast BusinessWeek's John Byrne and Michael Mandel discuss Fed Chairman Bernan...

Volcker doesn't like Inflation targeting

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From an interview Volcker gave to Bloomberg in 2006; Volcker was skeptical that inflation targeting, a device for anchoring inflation expect...

For soft landing try fiscal

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Achieving a Soft Landing: The Role of Fiscal Policy Summary: This paper utilizes an open-economy New Keynesian overlapping generations model...
Friday, March 21, 2008

Gaps in Securities Market Regulation

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A summary of a recent IMF Conference on Securities Statistics Conference participants agreed on the need for a compilation guide for securit...
Thursday, March 20, 2008

'Could we have risked the failure of Bear Stearns?'

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Volcker: Fed’s ‘Extreme’ Intervention ‘Raises Some Real Questions’ An older interview talking about the UN oil for food corruption scandal...
Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Econ Talks

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James Hamilton Says Fed Rate Cuts Lack Previous `Power' Robert Parry Says Fed Focus on Growth Is Understandable
Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Subprime is not an emerging markets style crisis

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I agree with Ajay Shah ; This is undoubtedly a difficult situation. But is it a crisis? One estimate of the size of losses on sub-prime home...

Confused about 'Syntax Destruction'

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" I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant ,...

A Primer on Monetary Policy in Australia

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A recent speech by Australian Reserve Bank governor ; I turn now to arguments about monetary policy and inflation. The first one that I want...