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iat money, alternatives, james dorn, george selgin, john taylor
Economic Thought, Fiat Money, Recommended Reading

Looking for Alternatives to Government Fiat Money?

James Dorn/March 31, 2017March 31, 2017 /7 Comments

The Cato Institute recently released Monetary Alternatives: Rethinking Government Fiat Money, a collection of essays 30 years in the making. As George Selgin explains in the foreword, The complacency wrought by the Great Moderation, not to mention the limited interest in fundamental monetary reform before then, resulted…

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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, 2017May 22, 2017 /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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financial repression, monetarism, money multiplier, NGDP targeting, People's Bank of China
Economic Thought, Recommended Reading, The Fed & Central Banks

Monetarism with Chinese Characteristics

James Dorn/March 2, 2017April 3, 2018 /11 Comments

Monetarism is often misunderstood, overlooked, forgotten, or even derided. Yet its basic logic, resting on the quantity theory of money, is evident and remains important in a world of pure fiat monies. Most major central banks have abandoned monetary targeting in favor of setting interest rates to…

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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, 2016December 19, 2016 /36 Comments

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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Bank of England, central bank independence, Quantitative Easing, savings glut, ZIRP
Money & Politics, Recommended Reading, The Fed & Central Banks

Have Central Bankers "Lost the Plot?"

Kevin Dowd/November 1, 2016October 31, 2016 /3 Comments

Recently, the UK Daily Telegraph ran a remarkable Op-Ed written by William Hague, the just-retired Conservative politician and former UK Foreign Secretary. The title alone was startling: "Central bankers have collectively lost the plot. They must raise interest rates or face their doom." Now I confess that…

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