Showing posts with label Federal Reserve. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Federal Reserve. Show all posts
Saturday, June 28, 2025

"There's a Flip Side to That Coin."

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  A number of posts have discussed "Miles' Law," that is, where you stand depends on where you sit .  Attitudes toward proce...
Tuesday, April 22, 2025

Sack the Fed Head?

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Many posts  have discussed  regulation  and the  administrative state .  Peter J. Wallison at AEI : In a 2020 case called Seila Law v. Consu...
Thursday, February 17, 2022

Why Debt Matters

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 Desmond Lachman at Inside Sources : The major problem with a high public debt level is that it saddles the government with large future in...
Monday, April 5, 2021

The Power of the Fed

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Felix Salmon at Axios: We're not in the throes of a " Greater Depression ," and we're not facing a tsunami of bankruptcies...
Sunday, July 5, 2020

COVID-19 and a Coin Shortage

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From the Federal Reserve: The COVID‐19 pandemic has significantly disrupted the supply chain and normal circulation patterns for U.S. co...
Saturday, December 29, 2018

What Makes an Effective President?

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At The Washington Examiner , David Drucker asked former Secretary of State George Shultz: what makes an effective president? A key is to ...
Thursday, December 1, 2016

Mnuchin's Rent-a-Friends

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&  Many posts have shown how interest groups cynically use charitable contributions to buy political support .  The latest example...
Monday, September 8, 2014

Economic Disparities

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The Federal Reserve Board’s triennial Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF) shows disparities in the evolution of income and net worth since 20...
Sunday, September 22, 2013

Knowledge, Deliberation, and Economic Policy

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The Federal Reserve this week decided not to end an important policy.  The public, which knows very little about the Fed , scarcely noticed...
Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Know Your Fed

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Many posts have discussed political knowledge . This past weekend, Lawrence Summers put an end to weeks of speculation by withdrawing from...
Thursday, May 30, 2013

Household Wealth Has Not Recovered

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A report from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis indicates that household wealth has not yet recovered from the Great Recession: The ...
Saturday, September 15, 2012

The Fed and Grim Numbers

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Our chapter on economic policy discusses the goals of the Federal Reserve . The New York Times reports: When the Federal Reserve ’s vice ...
Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Plunging Net Worth

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An article from The Federal Reserve : The Federal Reserve Board' s Survey of Consumer Finances for 2010 provides insights into chang...
Sunday, November 29, 2009

Fed Deliberations, Continued

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In an earlier post, we discussed a proposal to open Federal Reserve deliberations to greater congressional scrutiny. Fed chair Ben Bernanke...
Friday, November 20, 2009

The Federal Reserve and Its Deliberations

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In chapter 18, we discuss the deliberations of the Federal Reserve. The House Financial Services Committee just voted for a measure to allo...