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READ MORE“Evidence that the current Administration is taking a different tack on economic policy was abundant at the recent Group of 20 (G-20) meetings in Toronto. The European governments, led by Germany, were arguing for deficit and debt reduction while the U …
READ MORE“As an alternative to market failure explanations, we draw on theory and historical evidence to argue that fiscal considerations explain the roles governments typically play in producing and regulating money. Public monopoly production of coins and ban …
READ MORE“The administration’s stimulus program has failed. Growth is slow and unemployment remains high. The president, his friends and advisers talk endlessly about the circumstances they inherited as a way of avoiding responsibility for the 18 months for whi …
READ MORE“February 2007 February 27, 2007 | Freddie Mac Press Release The Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac) announces that it will no longer buy the most risky subprime mortgages and mortgage-related securities. April 2007 April 2, 2007 | SEC …
READ MORE“A summary of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, released Saturday by the House Financial Services Committee. The legislation is expected to come before Congress next week for a final vote. 1. Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform a …
READ MORE“Those looking for clear winners and losers after the conference committee struck a historic final agreement early Friday on regulatory reform legislation are bound to be frustrated. For every agency or industry participant that appeared to gain in the …
READ MOREOn Thursday, June 17, I attended a lecture by Dr. Benjamin Powell of Suffolk University. He spoke at the Charles G. Koch Foundation, giving one of his excellent lectures on Somalia and its Stateless society. While the lecture itself is well worth heari …
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READ MOREKansas City Fed President Thomas Hoenig is a lone dissenter at the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC)–the central bank’s main policymaking body. At the June FOMC meeting, for the fourth time in a row, he dissented to the Fed’s statement that economi …
READ MORE“To many observers, the Federal Reserve’s extraordinary policy actions during the recent crisis averted a financial Armageddon and curtailed the depth and duration of the recession (Rudebusch 2009). To combat panic and dislocation in financial markets, …
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