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A Question for the Market Monetarists

George Selgin/July 8, 2012June 19, 2022

Although my work on the "Productivity Norm" has led to my being occasionally referred to as an early proponent of Market Monetarism, mine has not been among the voices calling out for more aggressive monetary expansion on the part of the Fed or ECB as a means…

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Economic Thought, Financial Markets, Inflation & Deflation, The Fed & Central Banks

Bob Keleher's market price approach to monetary policy

Kurt Schuler/June 5, 2012June 19, 2022

Robert E. Keleher died on May 27 at the age of 67. His name will be previously known to few readers of this blog, but his ideas are highly important to the current world economic situation. Bob’s most significant work was Monetary Policy, a Market Price Approach,…

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Bank of Canada Governor Addresses Austrian Economics and NGDP Targeting

Steve Horwitz/February 25, 2012June 19, 2022

This talk by Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney from Thursday is of note mostly for the fact that he explicitly addresses both Austrian criticisms of central bank policy and the position taken by NGDP targeters like Scott Sumner.  The bit on the Austrians is below.  He…

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Hyperinflation, alive and well

Vern McKinley/January 1, 2012June 19, 2022

In my initial post last May I mentioned I would discuss some of the economic environments that I have worked in as part of my consulting work. I have some very clear memories about inflation in the US from the late 1970s and early 1980s. I worked…

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Good deflation and good inflation

Kurt Schuler/January 1, 2012June 19, 2022

A couple of weeks ago, Scott Sumner pointed out that many conservative-leaning economists think that certain types of deflation can be good. The same economists, though, are typically reluctant to acknowledge that by a similar argument, certain types of inflation can be good. As Sumner points out,…

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