Unpacking Policy Consequences: Kevin Murphy and Ed Lazear Part 1
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Johnny Cougar (Mellencamp) – I need a Lover (Countdown 1978)
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Ted Mulry Gang – Darktown Strutters Ball – Countdown 1976
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The Angels – Shadow Boxer – Countdown Australia – 1st July 1979
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The Vorkuta Gulag – Hellhole of the USSR
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Switzerland: Neutral or Nazi Ally? – WW2 Special
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Stephen Williamson’s Baffling Conjecture
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I, for the life of me, can not understand where Stephen Williamson is coming from in the recent posts he’s done claiming that Quantitative Easing is ineffective, and that the Fed is completely out of tools which it can use to boost the economy. Here are the points he made from his most recent post, entitled “Mark, Brad, and Ben“:
- Accommodative monetary policy causes inflation, but with a lag. I think Brad’s inflation forecast is on the low side, as maybe Ben does as well. The policy rate has been at essentially zero since fall 2008. Sooner or later (and maybe Ben is thinking sooner) we’re going to see the higher inflation in core measures.
- Maybe Ben is more worried about headline inflation (as I think he should be) than he lets on.
- Maybe in his press conference Ben did not want to spend his time explaining why…
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