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Alan Greenspan

Alan Greenspan, Judy Shelton, Federal Reserve, Gold Standard
Commodity Money, News, The Fed & Central Banks

Fear of a Gold Planet

Larry White/June 4, 2019June 19, 2022

Proposed nominees Stephen Moore and Herman Cain having dropped out of contention, discussion continues over the Trump administration’s possible next nomination to the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors. The views of the latest candidate under consideration by the administration, Judy Shelton, have revived a question that commentators…

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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, 2016June 19, 2022

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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