Monetary Policy
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“Golden Opportunity for Social Security”
“The time has come to get our financial situation in order. I’m not talking about the pros and cons of another stimulus or if the Bush/Obama plans “worked” or not, but a more substantive proposal. Let’s get some of our gold back from the International Monetary Fund, monetize it, and put it in the Social…
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“The Optimal Degree of Discretion in Monetary Policy”
“How much discretion should the monetary authority have in setting its policy? This question is analyzed in an economy with an agreed-upon social welfare function that depends on the economy’s randomly fluctuating state. The monetary authority has private information about that state. Well designed rules trade off society’s desire to give the monetary authority discretion…
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“A Comparison of Three Institutions for Monetary Policy When Central Bankers Have Private Objectives”
“How do different institutional arrangements for the central bank perform when central bankers have private objectives and society’s objectives vary with time? This paper evaluates three benchmark monetary institutions from a constitutional perspective: (i) a contract with an inflation- or monetary target announcement; (ii) an inflation rule, (iii) the laissez faire policy, i.e., the absence of…
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“Burry of ‘The Big Short’ Bets on Farmland, Gold After Profits on Subprime”
“Gold is also a favored investment as central banks issue debt and devalue their currencies, he said. Governments haven’t adequately addressed the causes of the financial crisis and may be sowing the seeds for future problems by borrowing, he said. In the U.S., lawmakers showed they didn’t understand how to prevent another crisis when they…
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“Dallas Fed Chief Not Keen on Buying Long-term Securities”
“Fisher said a more pressing problem is that recent fiscal and regulatory policies are not necessarily conducive to economic growth – a message he hears from many business contacts. “The prevailing sentiment is that politicians and officials who craft and enforce taxes and rules have been doing so in a capricious manner that makes long-term…
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“Ron Paul: Financial Reform Solved Nothing”
“Just pretending that we can continue with the same monetary policy, the same Federal Reserve system, and all these guarantees sort of concedes that we’re going to have another bubble. If we have regulations and plans for how we distribute these assets later on, it just says that nothing has changed. That’s another reason why…
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“Fed leaders had varied views on August policy action”
“Federal Reserve officials were divided at their Aug. 10 meeting over whether they should resume purchases of Treasury bonds and what impact the move could have on the nation’s economy, according to minutes released Tuesday. In the end, the Fed’s policymaking committee elected to reinvest money from maturing mortgage securities in government bonds by a…
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“Spreading Hayek, Spurning Keynes”
“To these free-market economists, government intrusion ultimately sows the seeds of the next crisis. It hampers what one famous Austrian, Joseph Schumpeter, called the process of “creative destruction.” Governments that spend money they don’t have to cushion downturns, they say, lead nations down the path of large debts and runaway inflation. Eight decades ago, in…
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The Recovery is Artificial
“The stimulus is causing an artificial rebound in the economy that cannot be maintained, says Jerry Jordan, former president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland.” Watch it here. “The Recovery is Artificial” Jerry Jordan MoneyShow.com, August 19, 2010.
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“Fed Off’ls at Jackson Hole Discuss Tough Policy Challenges”
“Federal Reserve policymakers and many of the world’s other top central bankers are gathering Thursday for their annual retreat and symposium in the shadow of the Grand Tetons. They are also meeting in the shadow of looming economic and financial problems, which seem to be defying the stimulative efforts of both monetary and fiscal policy.…
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“Golden Opportunity for Social Security”
“The time has come to get our financial situation in order. I’m not talking about the pros and cons of another stimulus or if the Bush/Obama plans “worked” or not, but a more substantive proposal. Let’s get some of our gold back from the International Monetary Fund, monetize it, and put it in the Social…
-
“The Optimal Degree of Discretion in Monetary Policy”
“How much discretion should the monetary authority have in setting its policy? This question is analyzed in an economy with an agreed-upon social welfare function that depends on the economy’s randomly fluctuating state. The monetary authority has private information about that state. Well designed rules trade off society’s desire to give the monetary authority discretion…
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“A Comparison of Three Institutions for Monetary Policy When Central Bankers Have Private Objectives”
“How do different institutional arrangements for the central bank perform when central bankers have private objectives and society’s objectives vary with time? This paper evaluates three benchmark monetary institutions from a constitutional perspective: (i) a contract with an inflation- or monetary target announcement; (ii) an inflation rule, (iii) the laissez faire policy, i.e., the absence of…
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“Burry of ‘The Big Short’ Bets on Farmland, Gold After Profits on Subprime”
“Gold is also a favored investment as central banks issue debt and devalue their currencies, he said. Governments haven’t adequately addressed the causes of the financial crisis and may be sowing the seeds for future problems by borrowing, he said. In the U.S., lawmakers showed they didn’t understand how to prevent another crisis when they…
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“Dallas Fed Chief Not Keen on Buying Long-term Securities”
“Fisher said a more pressing problem is that recent fiscal and regulatory policies are not necessarily conducive to economic growth – a message he hears from many business contacts. “The prevailing sentiment is that politicians and officials who craft and enforce taxes and rules have been doing so in a capricious manner that makes long-term…
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“Ron Paul: Financial Reform Solved Nothing”
“Just pretending that we can continue with the same monetary policy, the same Federal Reserve system, and all these guarantees sort of concedes that we’re going to have another bubble. If we have regulations and plans for how we distribute these assets later on, it just says that nothing has changed. That’s another reason why…
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“Fed leaders had varied views on August policy action”
“Federal Reserve officials were divided at their Aug. 10 meeting over whether they should resume purchases of Treasury bonds and what impact the move could have on the nation’s economy, according to minutes released Tuesday. In the end, the Fed’s policymaking committee elected to reinvest money from maturing mortgage securities in government bonds by a…
-
“Spreading Hayek, Spurning Keynes”
“To these free-market economists, government intrusion ultimately sows the seeds of the next crisis. It hampers what one famous Austrian, Joseph Schumpeter, called the process of “creative destruction.” Governments that spend money they don’t have to cushion downturns, they say, lead nations down the path of large debts and runaway inflation. Eight decades ago, in…
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The Recovery is Artificial
“The stimulus is causing an artificial rebound in the economy that cannot be maintained, says Jerry Jordan, former president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland.” Watch it here. “The Recovery is Artificial” Jerry Jordan MoneyShow.com, August 19, 2010.
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“Fed Off’ls at Jackson Hole Discuss Tough Policy Challenges”
“Federal Reserve policymakers and many of the world’s other top central bankers are gathering Thursday for their annual retreat and symposium in the shadow of the Grand Tetons. They are also meeting in the shadow of looming economic and financial problems, which seem to be defying the stimulative efforts of both monetary and fiscal policy.…
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