Inflation
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“Federal Reserve Information and the Behavior of Interest Rates”
“This paper tests for the existence of asymmetric information between the Federal Reserve and the public by examining Federal Reserve and commercial inflation forecasts. It demonstrates that the Federal Reserve has considerable information about inflation beyond what is known to commercial forecasters. It also shows that monetary-policy actions provide signals of the Federal Reserve’s information…
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“Money in the 1920s and 1930s”
“One of the most enduring and troublesome mysteries in economics is money: how it is created, what sorts of institutions initiate the process, what kinds of mystique and priestcraft central bankers use in managing monetary systems, and what rules, laws, or customs limit their actions. Perhaps the common ignorance about money is harmless. After all,…
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“Bernanke Says Rising Wages Will Lift Spending”
“Investors and the public have been closely watching signals about the economy and the Fed’s possible policy moves to address problems. While the United States has “a considerable way to go” for a full recovery, “rising demand from households and businesses should help sustain growth,” Mr. Bernanke said on Monday in a speech in Charleston,…
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Bullard’s Bipoloar Fed Strategy
“Forcing banks to take undue risk for the sake of the economy would result in banks recklessly engaging in the behavior that precipitated the financial crisis in the first place! Banks could still decide not to lend to small businesses and consumers, preferring to party like its 2007 by engaging in LBOs, M&A financing, etc.…
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Inflation: Watering Down the Punch
“With the recent financial crisis macroeconomic issues are receiving more and more attention. Inflation is one of those issues. Many claim inflation to be the cause of the crisis; which has even given the Austrian business cycle theory attention from the media. The theory states that an increase in the money supply causes a false…
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A Conversation with Milton Friedman – Liberty Fund
“Milton Friedman discusses his economic ideas with Gary S. Becker. Recipient of the 1976 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, Milton Friedman has long been recognized as one of our most important economic thinkers, and a leader of the Chicago school of monetary economics. A senior research fellow at the Hoover Institution since 1977, he is…
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Inflation: The view from Canada
Congratulations to the Molinari Institute in France for paying attention to sound money and posting Inflation, the Underrated Destroyer of Prosperity a speech by Maxime Bernier, MP for Beauce (Canada), before the Economic Club of Toronto on June 8, 2010
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“Should the Fed Pump Even More”
“The only way fiscal and monetary stimulus could “work” is if the flow of real savings (i.e., real funding) is large enough to support (i.e., fund) government activities and activities that sprang up on the back of loose-monetary policy while still permitting a positive rate of growth in the activities of real-wealth generators. (Note that…
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Age of Inflation
“Professor Hans F. Sennholz is the outstanding student of Ludwig von Mises whose lifetime work specialized in monetary and financial economics. This book is one of his great legacies to economic science. The title Age of Inflation reflects its subject matter and the date of original publication: 1979, the year of the outbreak of double-digit…
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The Inflation Crisis and How to Resolve It
“No subject is so much discussed today – or so little understood – as inflation. The politicians in Washington talk of it as if it were some horrible visitation from without, over which they had no control – like a flood, a foreign invasion, or a plague. It is something they are always promising to…
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“Federal Reserve Information and the Behavior of Interest Rates”
“This paper tests for the existence of asymmetric information between the Federal Reserve and the public by examining Federal Reserve and commercial inflation forecasts. It demonstrates that the Federal Reserve has considerable information about inflation beyond what is known to commercial forecasters. It also shows that monetary-policy actions provide signals of the Federal Reserve’s information…
-
“Money in the 1920s and 1930s”
“One of the most enduring and troublesome mysteries in economics is money: how it is created, what sorts of institutions initiate the process, what kinds of mystique and priestcraft central bankers use in managing monetary systems, and what rules, laws, or customs limit their actions. Perhaps the common ignorance about money is harmless. After all,…
-
“Bernanke Says Rising Wages Will Lift Spending”
“Investors and the public have been closely watching signals about the economy and the Fed’s possible policy moves to address problems. While the United States has “a considerable way to go” for a full recovery, “rising demand from households and businesses should help sustain growth,” Mr. Bernanke said on Monday in a speech in Charleston,…
-
Bullard’s Bipoloar Fed Strategy
“Forcing banks to take undue risk for the sake of the economy would result in banks recklessly engaging in the behavior that precipitated the financial crisis in the first place! Banks could still decide not to lend to small businesses and consumers, preferring to party like its 2007 by engaging in LBOs, M&A financing, etc.…
-
Inflation: Watering Down the Punch
“With the recent financial crisis macroeconomic issues are receiving more and more attention. Inflation is one of those issues. Many claim inflation to be the cause of the crisis; which has even given the Austrian business cycle theory attention from the media. The theory states that an increase in the money supply causes a false…
-
A Conversation with Milton Friedman – Liberty Fund
“Milton Friedman discusses his economic ideas with Gary S. Becker. Recipient of the 1976 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, Milton Friedman has long been recognized as one of our most important economic thinkers, and a leader of the Chicago school of monetary economics. A senior research fellow at the Hoover Institution since 1977, he is…
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Inflation: The view from Canada
Congratulations to the Molinari Institute in France for paying attention to sound money and posting Inflation, the Underrated Destroyer of Prosperity a speech by Maxime Bernier, MP for Beauce (Canada), before the Economic Club of Toronto on June 8, 2010
-
“Should the Fed Pump Even More”
“The only way fiscal and monetary stimulus could “work” is if the flow of real savings (i.e., real funding) is large enough to support (i.e., fund) government activities and activities that sprang up on the back of loose-monetary policy while still permitting a positive rate of growth in the activities of real-wealth generators. (Note that…
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Age of Inflation
“Professor Hans F. Sennholz is the outstanding student of Ludwig von Mises whose lifetime work specialized in monetary and financial economics. This book is one of his great legacies to economic science. The title Age of Inflation reflects its subject matter and the date of original publication: 1979, the year of the outbreak of double-digit…
-
The Inflation Crisis and How to Resolve It
“No subject is so much discussed today – or so little understood – as inflation. The politicians in Washington talk of it as if it were some horrible visitation from without, over which they had no control – like a flood, a foreign invasion, or a plague. It is something they are always promising to…
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