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economic development, Kenya, M-PESA, mobile money, Poverty Alleviation
Banking Regulation, Digital Money, Financial Innovation

Cashing Out of Poverty

Scott Burns/December 22, 2016June 19, 2022

Financial innovations like mobile money have gained fame for transforming commerce in the developing world. But they’re also helping the poor escape poverty. In an earlier post, I showed how over the past few years M-PESA and other kinds of “mobile money” have made sending money across…

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Alan Greenspan, asset bubbles, inflation targeting, NGDP targeting, Sebastian Mallaby
Booms & Busts, Recommended Reading, The Fed & Central Banks

The Man Who Blew

George Selgin/December 16, 2016June 19, 2022

Sebastian Mallaby's biography of Alan Greenspan does just about everything right. Despite its length, it's eminently readable. Yet there's nothing superficial about it: Mallaby seems no less comfortable with economics than he is with English, allowing expert monetary and macro-economists to join non-expert readers in both enjoying and…

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Ben Bernanke, Donald Trump, interest rates, natural rate of interest, Quantitative Easing
Economic Thought, Money & Politics, The Fed & Central Banks

Has the Fed been Holding Down Interest Rates?

George Selgin/December 1, 2016June 19, 2022

ONCE UPON A TIME, when my twin brother and I were tots, our father convinced us that he could make a traffic light change from red to green whenever he wanted it to. Raising his hand to the light as we sat at an intersection, he would…

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India, Demonetization, Narendra Moti, seigniorage, wealth transfer
Fiat Money, Money & Politics, News

India’s Currency Cancellation: Seigniorage and Cantillon Effects

Larry White/November 28, 2016June 19, 2022

News accounts and analyses on other blogs have usefully described and critically assessed the “demonetization” shock that Prime Minister Narendra Modi gave the Indian economy on November 8. Here we emphasize two features of Modi’s initiative that have been little noticed. First, the combination of demonetization followed…

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Monetary Conference, Cato, Shelton, Basel, financial crisis, government debt, QE
Events, Money & Politics, The Fed & Central Banks

34th Cato Monetary Conference: Central Banks and Financial Turmoil

Ari Blask/November 23, 2016June 19, 2022

More than two hundred people came to Cato last Thursday, November 17th, for the 34th Annual Monetary Conference. Four panels and two keynote speakers covered “Central Banks and Financial Turmoil,” the theme of this year’s conference. In his introduction, CMFA’s James Dorn laid out some of the key…

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