Cheers for Powell
12 Jan 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, macroeconomics, monetary economics Tags: climate alarmism, monetary policy
Jay Powell’s Stockholm speech lays it out with Gettysburg address clarity and brevity. Relative to usual central-bankerese it’s soaring rhetoric too.Ā …Decisions about policies to directly address climate change should be made by the elected branches of government and thus reflect the public’s will as expressed through elections…. without explicit congressional legislation, it would be inappropriateā¦
Cheers for Powell
Milton Friedman: worldwide inflation
04 Jan 2023 Leave a comment
in economic history, history of economic thought, macroeconomics, Milton Friedman, monetarism, monetary economics Tags: monetary policy
Inflation, according to the monetarists, was caused by an excess supply of money
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Milton Friedman on Keynesian Economics
23 Aug 2022 Leave a comment
in business cycles, economic history, fiscal policy, great depression, history of economic thought, macroeconomics, Milton Friedman, monetarism, monetary economics, unemployment Tags: Keynesian macroeconomics, monetary policy
Milton Friedman – Understanding Inflation
20 Aug 2022 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, business cycles, economic history, fiscal policy, history of economic thought, macroeconomics, Milton Friedman, monetarism, monetary economics Tags: inflation, monetary policy
Freeman and Champ on money/output correlations
17 Aug 2022 Leave a comment
in business cycles, economic growth, history of economic thought, macroeconomics, monetarism, monetary economics Tags: monetary policy


How One Man Stole a Central Bank
02 Aug 2022 Leave a comment
in business cycles, economic history, economics of crime, law and economics, macroeconomics, monetary economics Tags: crime and punishment, monetary policy
But the quantitative easings after the GFC didn’t lead to inflation!?
29 Jul 2022 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, business cycles, economic history, fiscal policy, global financial crisis (GFC), macroeconomics, monetarism, monetary economics, public economics Tags: monetary policy

New Keynesianism in central banking: friend or foe? Robert Hetzel
30 Jun 2022 Leave a comment
in business cycles, economic history, fiscal policy, great recession, history of economic thought, macroeconomics, monetarism, monetary economics Tags: monetary policy
‘The US Fed response to Covid-19 crisis as compared to the Global Financial Crisis’. Robert Hetzel
29 Jun 2022 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, business cycles, economic growth, economic history, fiscal policy, global financial crisis (GFC), great recession, history of economic thought, macroeconomics, monetarism, monetary economics Tags: monetary policy
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