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asset bubbles, Donald Trump, Gold standard, Janet Yellen, Taylor Rule
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What will Donald Trump’s Presidency Mean for the Federal Reserve?

Larry White/November 10, 2016June 19, 2022

On election night, former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani told MSNBC interviewer Chris Matthews that Donald Trump’s victory, after a campaign against the elites and insiders, was like Andrew Jackson’s first presidential victory. At the end of his first term in office, Jackson cut the federal government’s…

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behavioral economics, Market Monetarism, monetary rules, NGDP targeting, Taylor Rule
Economic Thought, Events, The Fed & Central Banks

Monetary Rules for a Post-Crisis World

Ari Blask/September 29, 2016June 19, 2022

Earlier this month a crowd of over a hundred and fifty gathered at George Mason University’s Arlington Campus for an academic conference co-hosted by the Mercatus Center and the CMFA. The conference, “Monetary Rules for a Post-Crisis World,” featured leading monetary economists, Washington’s top financial journalists, and…

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FOMC, Great Recession, monetary rules, Narayana Kocherlakota, Taylor Rule
Economic Thought, News, The Fed & Central Banks

Rules, Discretion, and Audacity: A Critique of Kocherlakota

George Selgin/September 22, 2016June 19, 2022

I was just about to treat myself to a little R&R last Friday when — wouldn't you know it? — I received an email message from the Brookings Institution's Hutchins Center. The message alerted me to a new Brookings Paper by former Minneapolis Fed President Narayana Kocherlakota….

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