Central Banking
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“The Case for Auditing the Fed is Obvious”
“Recently, the Federal Reserve has significantly altered the procedures and goals that it had followed for decades. It has more than doubled its balance sheet, paid interest to banks on reserves held as deposits with the Fed, made decisions about which institutions to prop up and which should be allowed to fail, invested in assets…
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“Inflation May Not Be Kind to the Stock Market”
“Investors seem to see inflation as no big deal, or maybe even a good thing. But they forget how inflation killed the stock market in the 1970s… and just how easily those conditions could return. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke is now seen as the stock market’s best friend. He is the second coming…
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“Free Market Money – Instead of Political Manipulation”
“Money is the most important commodity in an economic system Indeed, money ‘makes the world go ’round.’ This is because money is the general medium of exchange. We sell our products and services for money, and then use it to buy the products and services of others. Money also permits us to comparison shop. Since…
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“BOE Unanimously Kept Bond Plan at 200 Billion Pounds”
“Bank of England policy makers unanimously kept their bond-purchase plan at 200 billion pounds ($307 billion) in April as some officials showed mounting concern at the prospect of a prolonged bout of faster inflation. The nine-member Monetary Policy Committee, led by Governor Mervyn King, voted 9-0 to maintain the program because data in the previous…
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“Fed Kohn Paper: Crisis Early Warning Requires Better Data”
“While, in hindsight, some of the data available to the Federal Reserve and other authorities gave notice of the financial crisis, more data and a different approach to analyzing them are needed if a reliable ‘early warning system’ for future crises is to be developed, according to research by Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Donald Kohn…
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“Unemployment and Inflation Inch Up in Europe”
“The unemployment rate in the euro area inched up to touch double digits in February, while inflation accelerated more than economists had forecast, probably a result of higher food and oil prices, according to data released Wednesday. Eurostat, the European Union’s statistics agency, said that seasonally adjusted unemployment in the 16 nations that use the…
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Inflation
“Inflation rates vary from year to year and from currency to currency. Since 1950, the U.S. dollar inflation rate, as measured by the December-to-December change in the U.S. Consumer Price Index (CPI), has ranged from a low of −0.7 percent (1954) to a high of 13.3 percent (1979). Since 1991, the rate has stayed between…
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“Giving the Fed New Powers Ignores History”
“The Fed’s own origins are evidence for this point. It is usually argued that the Fed was created to avoid the banking crises that plagued the United States in the late 19th century. That is true to an extent. What it misses is that those crises were the product of the regulations of the National…
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“Competitve Currencies, Legal Restrictions and the Origins of the Fed”
“In the last several years, economists have produced numoerous studies examining both the theoretical operations and historical manifestations of unregulated banking systems. Recent examples of historical investigations are the studies by L. White (47), who explores the Scottish experience, Selgin (33) on China, and Timberlake (43), Gorton (12), and Mullineaux (20), all of whom examin…
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“More Muscle to Fed”
“Mr. Dodd’s bill would allow the Fed to examine any bank-holding company with more than $50 billion in assets, and large financial companies that aren’t banks could be lassoed into the Fed’s supervisory orbit. This came after Treasury officials pushed Mr. Dodd to bring more companies under the Fed’s purview. Any financial company, from small…
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“The Case for Auditing the Fed is Obvious”
“Recently, the Federal Reserve has significantly altered the procedures and goals that it had followed for decades. It has more than doubled its balance sheet, paid interest to banks on reserves held as deposits with the Fed, made decisions about which institutions to prop up and which should be allowed to fail, invested in assets…
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“Inflation May Not Be Kind to the Stock Market”
“Investors seem to see inflation as no big deal, or maybe even a good thing. But they forget how inflation killed the stock market in the 1970s… and just how easily those conditions could return. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke is now seen as the stock market’s best friend. He is the second coming…
-
“Free Market Money – Instead of Political Manipulation”
“Money is the most important commodity in an economic system Indeed, money ‘makes the world go ’round.’ This is because money is the general medium of exchange. We sell our products and services for money, and then use it to buy the products and services of others. Money also permits us to comparison shop. Since…
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“BOE Unanimously Kept Bond Plan at 200 Billion Pounds”
“Bank of England policy makers unanimously kept their bond-purchase plan at 200 billion pounds ($307 billion) in April as some officials showed mounting concern at the prospect of a prolonged bout of faster inflation. The nine-member Monetary Policy Committee, led by Governor Mervyn King, voted 9-0 to maintain the program because data in the previous…
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“Fed Kohn Paper: Crisis Early Warning Requires Better Data”
“While, in hindsight, some of the data available to the Federal Reserve and other authorities gave notice of the financial crisis, more data and a different approach to analyzing them are needed if a reliable ‘early warning system’ for future crises is to be developed, according to research by Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Donald Kohn…
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“Unemployment and Inflation Inch Up in Europe”
“The unemployment rate in the euro area inched up to touch double digits in February, while inflation accelerated more than economists had forecast, probably a result of higher food and oil prices, according to data released Wednesday. Eurostat, the European Union’s statistics agency, said that seasonally adjusted unemployment in the 16 nations that use the…
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Inflation
“Inflation rates vary from year to year and from currency to currency. Since 1950, the U.S. dollar inflation rate, as measured by the December-to-December change in the U.S. Consumer Price Index (CPI), has ranged from a low of −0.7 percent (1954) to a high of 13.3 percent (1979). Since 1991, the rate has stayed between…
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“Giving the Fed New Powers Ignores History”
“The Fed’s own origins are evidence for this point. It is usually argued that the Fed was created to avoid the banking crises that plagued the United States in the late 19th century. That is true to an extent. What it misses is that those crises were the product of the regulations of the National…
-
“Competitve Currencies, Legal Restrictions and the Origins of the Fed”
“In the last several years, economists have produced numoerous studies examining both the theoretical operations and historical manifestations of unregulated banking systems. Recent examples of historical investigations are the studies by L. White (47), who explores the Scottish experience, Selgin (33) on China, and Timberlake (43), Gorton (12), and Mullineaux (20), all of whom examin…
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“More Muscle to Fed”
“Mr. Dodd’s bill would allow the Fed to examine any bank-holding company with more than $50 billion in assets, and large financial companies that aren’t banks could be lassoed into the Fed’s supervisory orbit. This came after Treasury officials pushed Mr. Dodd to bring more companies under the Fed’s purview. Any financial company, from small…
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