Topic: Central Banking

Central Banking, Inflation, Sound Money Project

Inflation Declined in March, But Remains High

– April 26, 2024

“Market participants continue to expect the Fed will cut its federal funds rate target this year — just not anytime soon.” ~ William J. Luther

Central Banking, Monetary Policy, Sound Money Project

A Better Model Won’t Fix The Fed

– April 23, 2024

“The whole point of expectations-responsive monetary policy is to remove the discretionary and technocratic elements from central banking. Disappointingly but unsurprisingly, the Fed is doing the opposite: doubling down on discretion and technocracy.” ~Alexander W. Salter

Central Banking, Inflation, Sound Money Project

Inflation We Can Feel But Don’t Measure

– April 16, 2024

“Regardless of whether one thinks that the CPI should include interest rates and/or asset prices, it seems clear that consumers factor in these costs when evaluating the cost of living.” ~Joshua R. Hendrickson

Books, Central Banking, Economic History

‘Shock Values’: An Idiosyncratic Economic History

– April 15, 2024

“While it provides a concise accounting of the many efforts taken to address inflation and deflation over the history of the republic, there is a cost to recounting such a rich history in so few pages.” ~Paul H. Kupiec

Central Banking, Financial Markets, Monetary Policy

Fixing A Big Mistake in Risk-Based Capital Rules

– March 27, 2024

“Both long Treasuries and mortgage-backed securities guaranteed by government agencies are in current regulation included as ‘High Quality Liquid Assets.’ But of course they both can and have created plenty of interest rate risk.” ~Alex J. Pollock

Books, Central Banking, Economic History, Inflation

“The Price of Time” and Broken Central Banking

– March 26, 2024

“The unique value of Chancellor’s book, beyond tracing this intellectual history of interest and illustrating it by financial debacles up and down the centuries, is to connect the social and market outcomes with the broken money markets.” ~Joakim Book

Central Banking, Economic Education, Inflation, Sound Money Project

Fact-Checking “Greedflation”

– March 18, 2024

“By fueling an overall increase in demand, central banks can generate a sustained increase in the general level of prices — inflation. Central banks are the primary source of money creation, not firms.” ~Nicolás Cachanosky

Central Banking, Inflation, Monetary Policy, Sound Money Project

Inflation Remains Elevated. Is Money Actually Tight?

– March 13, 2024

” Fed watchers expect the Federal Open Market Committee will keep rates steady when they meet on March 19-20. In light of the CPI data, that’s a defensible move.” ~Alexander W. Salter

Central Banking, International, Monetary Policy, Sound Money Project

Does Argentina Have Enough Dollars to Dollarize?

– March 11, 2024

“It’s not that Argentina lacks dollars. Rather, it is that the Argentine government lacks the will to commit to its dollarization plan.” ~Nicolás Cachanosky

Central Banking, Crisis, Economic Trends, Free Banking

Another Year, Another Crisis

– March 11, 2024

“From inflation to a Fed tightening cycle, to banking losses and now real estate tremors, we again find ourselves climbing tenuously out of one hole only to collapse limply into another.” ~Peter C. Earle

Central Banking, Inflation, Monetary Policy, Sound Money Project

Faster Growth and Interest Rates: Even Harder than You Think

– March 7, 2024

“Higher rates could be a sign of loose money, not tight, depending on how far from the policy change we’re looking and how fast the market adapts.” ~ Alexander W. Salter

Central Banking, Inflation, Sound Money Project

Fed Admits It Was Wrong – Kind Of

– March 5, 2024

“So rather than starting to tighten policy in the fourth quarter of ‘21, as Powell described, the Fed was implicitly loosening policy through May of ‘22.” ~Thomas L. Hogan