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Flexible OMOs, IPO on ramp, NGDP targeting, Sarbanes-Oxley, Too Big To Fail
Banking Regulation, Money & Politics, Recommended Reading

Money and Finance Policy Priorities

Ari Blask/March 10, 2017June 19, 2022 /14 Comments

The Cato Institute recently released the 8th edition of its Handbook for Policymakers. Compiled by Cato scholars, it provides advice for the new administration and Congress on key domestic and foreign policy issues. The CMFA’s George Selgin, Thaya Brook Knight, and Mark Calabria (now Chief Economist to…

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base money, competitive note issue, Denaltionalisation of Money, monetary rules, NGDP targeting
Banking Regulation, Economic Thought, Free Banking

Friday Flashback: Free Banking and NGDP Targeting

George Selgin/February 17, 2017June 19, 2022 /72 Comments

(Originally appeared on June 19, 2013.) Kurt's recent post on NGDP targeting just happens to come right on time to introduce one I'd been contemplating concerning the connection between such targeting and free banking. While many readers may suppose the two things to represent alternative, if not…

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Excess Reserves, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Steven Mnuchin, mortgage finance
Banking Regulation, Financial Markets

The Treasury Should Revive the Snow Plan for Limiting GSE Debt Issuance

Mark Calabria/February 6, 2017June 19, 2022 /6 Comments

Despite both the recent release of a set of “GSE reform principles” by the Mortgage Bankers Association and Treasury Secretary Designee Steven Mnuchin’s promise to prioritize reform of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, as matters stand such reform seems likely to remain stalled for some time: while…

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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 /1 Comment

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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Richard Cordray, Donald Trump, CFPB, D.C. Circuit, Supreme Court
Banking Regulation, Money & Politics, News

The Long Path to Director Cordray’s Removal

Thaya Brook Knight/November 21, 2016June 19, 2022 /2 Comments

I have been vigorously recommending that President-elect Trump replace Richard Cordray as director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). I still think that replacing Director Cordray is necessary for reasons I’ve enumerated elsewhere; but on Friday the CFPB filed a petition for a rehearing of a…

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