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Bob Keleher's market price approach to monetary policy

Kurt Schuler/June 5, 2012June 19, 2022 /6 Comments

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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Economic History, Financial Markets, Money & Politics, The Fed & Central Banks

Krugman's Misreading of US Banking History

Steve Horwitz/May 14, 2012June 19, 2022 /9 Comments

In his NY Times column Sunday, Paul Krugman tries, in vain, to construct a case for bank regulation in light of the problems at JP Morgan. As usual with Krugman, there’s much to disagree with, but I want to focus on his utterly ham-handed version of the…

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Bernanke's Fairy Tale

Vern McKinley/April 12, 2012June 19, 2022 /12 Comments

Taking a cue from Dr. Selgin who made a convincing case on this blog regarding the entertainment value of the first installment of Chairman Bernanke’s GW lectures; and after spending an hour and a half of my free time while recently working in the Caribbean listening to…

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Anti-Bernanke

George Selgin/March 21, 2012June 19, 2022 /12 Comments

Despite the bright light streaming into my office window, reminding me of the beautiful spring weather here in Athens, I managed to spend most of yesterday afternoon listening to the first installment of Ben Bernanke's 4-part lecture series on "The Federal Reserve and the Financial Crisis." The…

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Money & Politics, The Fed & Central Banks

Name Your Favorite Geithner Nickname: "Turbotax Tim" "Chicken Little"

Vern McKinley/March 16, 2012June 19, 2022 /5 Comments

By all indications by year end we will be granted a reprieve from listening to Secretary Geithner’s outrageous claims about how the bailouts, largely engineered from his perch as the President of the New York Fed, saved the world from absolute financial Armageddon. To Geithner anyone who…

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