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…
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,…
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…
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…
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,…