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Daylight savings time and floating exchange rates

Kurt Schuler/November 4, 2012June 19, 2022 /6 Comments

Today the United States switched from daylight savings time to standard time. Europe has already done so, as Lars Christensen noted in a recent post. Lars used the occasion, as I will, to bring up Milton Friedman's analogy between daylight savings time and floating exchange rates in…

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Currency Boards, Financial Markets

Friedman on flexible exchange rates

Kurt Schuler/August 5, 2012June 19, 2022 /2 Comments

Lars Christensen’s blog The Market Monetarist, which I make sure to read regularly, used the recent centenary of Milton Friedman’s birth to discuss Friedman’s views on exchange rates. The standard view of Friedman was that he was an advocate of flexible exchange rates, pure and simple. I…

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Currency Boards, Free Banking

China; currency boards

Kurt Schuler/July 10, 2012June 19, 2022 /3 Comments

Here is my review of a book that was written half a century ago but is little known to English speakers: A Monetary History of China. China had periods of free banking at various times and places from 995 A.D. to 1941. Free banking in China has…

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Currency Boards, Inflation & Deflation

A curious claim by Alan Blinder

Larry White/December 13, 2011June 19, 2022 /8 Comments

Alan Blinder in the Wall St. Journal today urges his readers to "remember the two fundamental determinants of exchange rates: (1) productivity in different countries—so, other things equal, faster productivity growth should lead to a rising exchange rate; and (2) prices and wages in different countries—so lower…

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