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“Economists do not agree about how monetary policy affects the economy. Different observers weigh in different ways the various specific channels through which monetary policy works. Views diverge even about the monetary transmission process in individ …
READ MORE“This work provides an overview of monetary policy operating procedures in emerging market economies. Most of the discussion reflects the situation in mid-1998. The emphasis is on general principles although in practice country-specific factors conditi …
READ MORE“There is a debt crisis in the making. It is international. Every industrial nation on earth faces a crisis that could dwarf the crisis of the 1930’s. The banks of the world have done the bidding of the politicians, and they have loaned hundreds of bil …
READ MORE“Michael Belongia of the University of Mississippi and former economist at the St. Louis Federal Reserve talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the inner workings, politics, and economics of the Federal Reserve. Belongia talks about the role that …
READ MORE“In the fall of 2008, the credit squeeze, which had emerged a little more than a year before, ballooned into Wall Street’s biggest crisis since the Great Depression. As hundreds of billions in mortgage-related investments went bad, mighty investment ba …
READ MORELast August, Ramesh Ponnuru, senior editor for National Review magazine and a contributor to many leading newspapers such as the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal, published a Time article on Obamacare and its paradoxes. O …
READ MOREAtlas is going to hold a Teach Freedom Initiative (TFI) is a half-day conference on sound money on April 9th, 2010, at the Sheraton Society Hill Hotel in Philadelphia, before the Philadelphia Society Meeting. The theme of the conference is “The Attack …
READ MOREThe Sound Money Project has secured a panel at the 2010 Association of Private Enterprise Education Conference in Las Vegas. Among the authors on this panel are Dr. Edward Stringham, Dr. Gerald O’Driscoll, Jr., and Atlas’s own Marius Gustavson, Leonard …
READ MORE“The 1970s was a decade of stagflation — the concurrence of a rising inflation rate and stagnant economic growth. The U.S. economy has not now reached the double-digit inflation rate (almost 15% by 1981), or the 9% unemployment rate, experienced back t …
READ MORE“By Shih’s count, China’s debt may reach 39.838 trillion yuan ($5.8 trillion) next year. His forecast for debt-to-GDP compares with an International Monetary Fund estimate for China of 22 percent this year, which excludes local-government liabilities. …
READ MOREEconomists Peter Boone and Simon Johnson think the economic system could be stuck in a “doomsday cycle”: “Over the last three decades, the US financial system has tripled in size, as measured by total credit relative to GDP. Each time the system runs i …
READ MORE“I’ve been doing a little reading this morning about the Greek crisis and related problems in Europe. One take, and it makes sense to me, is that many European countries have such low fertility rates that even with some degree of immigration, they simp …
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