Many causes of monetary policy failure
I read an excellent post by Lars Christensen this evening in which he points out a pamphlet that includes excerpts …
Monthly Archives: June 2014
Trouble in Iraq
I am starting off this post with a disclaimer. What I know about the situation is what I’ve read from …
Inflation nutters getting nuttier: Let’s talk about the CPI
The CPI headline measure hit annual 2.1% in May and the inflation nutters are going wild that the Fed hardly …
The new generation of macro greats
Lars Christensen posted this photo taken of Marcus Nunes, Scott Sumner and himself while at the Adam Smith Institute where …
Becker on Fed independence
Since the topic of conversation recently has been about the Stanford Symposium of hawks, I went to look up some …
Reminders of the past: Wow
I was a little astonished to have received “Likes” on some of my older posts, the ones that meant quite …
Eric Cantor defrocked
As you may already know, Mr. Cantor, US representative in the House and Majority Leader from Culpepper, VA, lost his …
Nonsensical nonsense and How high is up (updated)
I don’t claim to have ever thought that the quality of Reuters financial reporting was or is stellar. But it …
What NOT to do to a Blade Center [Updated]
Today has been one of those days. I’m aware that most of my readers probably aren’t interested in the nuts …
Setting the bar so low failure is impossible
I noticed that Lars Christensen has a new post about central bankers committing to low interest rates being a strategy …
