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Monetary Policy Ten Years After the Crisis: A Conference Recap

Tyler Whirty/November 30, 2018June 19, 2022

Founded by Cato’s vice president for monetary studies James A. Dorn in 1983, the Cato Institute’s Annual Monetary Conference has kept the monetary policy conversation alive in Washington, DC, for nearly four decades — even at times when a calcified consensus made the topic seem unimportant. The…

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Janet Yellen, IOER, interest on reserves, Federal Reserve, unconventional monetary policy, normalization
Fiat Money, News, The Fed & Central Banks

Yellen's Defense of Interest on Reserves

George Selgin/November 29, 2017June 19, 2022

The Cat's Out of the Bag In September, when current Fed chair Janet Yellen held a press conference announcing details of the Fed's normalization plan, yours truly insisted that that plan reflected the Fed's "determination to maintain its current, bureaucratically advantageous operating system," in which monetary policy…

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bank lending, dual mandate, FOMC, interest on reserves, unconventional monetary policy
Money & Politics, News, The Fed & Central Banks

Does Monetary Policy Have a Future?

Gerald P O'Driscoll/November 2, 2016June 19, 2022

I have chosen a provocative title, but it is fully justified. Fed officials are flying on autopilot, but the controls don’t work anymore, or at least not reliably. Fed watchers are largely clueless. The investment community and the economy may be collateral damage. Let me begin by…

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