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An Industry Perspective on JP Morgan’s Discount Window Assumptions

Brian Nolan/March 12, 2020June 19, 2022 /1 Comment

Today, Alt-M features a guest blog post from Brian Nolan, a bank treasury professional and co-founder of Finteum in London, UK, which is creating an interbank market for intraday borrowing and lending. *** In a speech on February 6 at the Money Marketeers Club of New York…

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Banking Regulation, Inflation & Deflation, Money & Politics, News, The Fed & Central Banks

Vice Chair Quarles' Stigma Problem

George Selgin/February 13, 2020June 19, 2022 /18 Comments

Considering all the new tools the Fed has toyed with since the onset of the last crisis, one might find Mr. Quarles' stance refreshing. George Selgin fears, however, that he has chosen the wrong occasion on which to put a kind word in for old-fashioned bureaucratic inertia.

corporate bonds, discount window, liquidity traps, Marginal Revolution, Tyler Cowen
Financial Markets, The Fed & Central Banks

Cowen on Central Banks and Liquidity Traps

George Selgin/February 24, 2016June 19, 2022 /16 Comments

These are challenging times for monetary economists like myself, what with central banks making one dramatic departure after another from conventional ways of conducting monetary policy. Yet so far as I'm concerned, coming to grips with negative interest rates, overnight reverse repos, and  other newfangled monetary control…

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