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Janet Yellen's Lift Off (CMFA Working Paper No. 001)

Working Paper Series/December 4, 2020December 4, 2020 /Leave a comment

 

Wide World of ESG
Financial Innovation, Financial Markets, Money & Politics, Securities Regulation

The Wide World of ESG

Jennifer Schulp/December 3, 2020December 1, 2020 /1 Comment

Remember the Wide World of Sports? Spanning the globe to bring you the constant variety of sport… the thrill of victory… and the agony of defeat… the human drama of athletic competition. I loved it. You never knew exactly which sport you'd be watching when you tuned…

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Fiat Money, Financial Innovation, Money & Politics, News, The Fed & Central Banks

E Pluribus, Unum? Federal Reserve Provision of Retail Accounts

Diego Zuluaga/December 1, 2020November 30, 2020 /2 Comments

This is the third and final essay in my series on proposals to help reduce the number of unbanked households in America. In my prior essays, I examined the history of the postal savings system between 1910 and 1966, and I evaluated present-day calls to allow the…

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U.S. Post Office
Economic History, Financial Markets, Money & Politics, News

Going Postal? Proposals for Post-Office Banking in 2020

Diego Zuluaga/October 16, 2020October 15, 2020 /1 Comment

In my last post, I discussed the experience of "postal savings" in America—its origins and how its flawed legislative design caused harm during the Great Depression. I showed that some features of the postal savings system adopted for political expediency, such as its fixed interest rates and…

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The New Deal and Recovery, Part 8 (Supplement): The Brookings Report

George Selgin/October 14, 2020January 11, 2021 /8 Comments

In assessing the New Deal's contribution to economic recovery, I've naturally tended to draw on fairly recent research. That keeps me from being accused of being out of date. But it makes me vulnerable to the charge of overlooking the testimony of experts who studied the New…

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