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“Federal Reserve State of Play”
“For many, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke’s speech at the Boston Federal Reserve Bank conference last Friday confirmed expectations that renewed quantitative easing will definitely be approved at the Nov. 2-3 Federal Open Market Committee meeting. “QE2” advocates seized on his comment that high unemployment and low inflation make “a case for further action,” although that […]
READ MORE“Politics and the Fed”
“The threat of politicization hangs over the Federal Reserve Board like the Sword of Damocles. It’s Capitol Hill’s response to the Fed’s proliferation of new programs to unglue credit markets. The Fed’s innovations threaten to create enough acronyms to tax the limits of the alphabet.” Read more. “Politics and the Fed” Alfred Tella The Washington […]
READ MORE“The Fed and Politics”
“Politically oriented monetary policies and business cycles are the inevitable by-products of a central bank, the ultimate favored banking institution which is viewed as a savior by some politicians facing elections. After the elections comes the bill: Inflation runs amuck. The nation goes into a painful recession, or the stock market crashes. Whatever the extent […]
READ MORE“100 Percent Reserve Money: The Small Change Challenge” – George Selgin
“In a free market economy from which fiduciary media are excluded, economic progress will be limited, perhaps severely, by the high cost and correspondingly limited supply of small-denomination money—money that is needed to accomplish retail and other low-value exchanges. Historically, fiduciary token coins have proven to be the only practical means for addressing the small […]
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