Dropping Money from Helicopters: John Cochrane on Inflation
01 Mar 2023 Leave a comment
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Inflation, according to the monetarists, was caused by an excess supply of money
07 Sep 2022 Leave a comment
But the quantitative easings after the GFC didn’t lead to inflation!?
29 Jul 2022 Leave a comment
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‘The US Fed response to Covid-19 crisis as compared to the Global Financial Crisis’. Robert Hetzel
29 Jun 2022 Leave a comment
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“Economic Policy and Growth of Nation” – by Prof. Finn Kydland
24 Apr 2022 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, budget deficits, business cycles, economic growth, economic history, Euro crisis, fiscal policy, global financial crisis (GFC), great recession, growth disasters, history of economic thought, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, monetary economics, public economics, unemployment Tags: real business cycles
Lucas, the quantity theory and the GFC
23 Apr 2022 Leave a comment
in business cycles, global financial crisis (GFC), macroeconomics, monetary economics, Robert E. Lucas
Edward Prescott doesn’t hold back on macroeconomics and central banks
21 Apr 2022 Leave a comment
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We wanted to see what happens if you don’t have the usual financial factors in there—not one word about banks, the Federal Reserve, the collapse of Lehman Brothers, et cetera
22 Feb 2022 Leave a comment
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For McGrattan and Prescott, two leading proponents of the use of quantitative, dynamic business cycle modeling to analyze macroeconomic trends, including intangible capital investment in total economic output is the key to making sense of head-scratching countercyclical movements in labor productivity over the past 25 years.
From https://www.minneapolisfed.org/article/2012/unmeasured-investment
My submission on Crown deposit insurance for finance company Ponzi schemes
21 Feb 2022 Leave a comment
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Money Under Laissez-Faire George Selgin
15 Jan 2022 Leave a comment
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The Fed’s Dismal Record | George A. Selgin
10 Jan 2022 Leave a comment
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George Selgin / Central Banking and Financial Crises
15 Dec 2021 Leave a comment
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George Selgin – replace the Fed
07 Dec 2021 Leave a comment
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Did the New Deal End the Great Depression? (with George Selgin)
06 Dec 2021 Leave a comment
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George Selgin on the Fed 12/06/2010
03 Dec 2021 Leave a comment
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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