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“The former head of the Federal Reserve said fiscal stimulus efforts have fallen far short of expectations, and the government now needs to get out of the way and allow businesses and markets to power the recovery. “We have to find a way to simmer down …
READ MORE“Global authorities have settled on their punishment for banks’ role in the financial crisis: a future encumbered by the burden of significantly heavier reserves that will impede the impulse to seek profit through excessive risk taking. Senior regulato …
READ MORE“How much discretion should the monetary authority have in setting its policy? This question is analyzed in an economy with an agreed-upon social welfare function that depends on the economy’s randomly fluctuating state. The monetary authority has priv …
READ MORE“How do different institutional arrangements for the central bank perform when central bankers have private objectives and society’s objectives vary with time? This paper evaluates three benchmark monetary institutions from a constitutional perspective …
READ MORE“Gold is also a favored investment as central banks issue debt and devalue their currencies, he said. Governments haven’t adequately addressed the causes of the financial crisis and may be sowing the seeds for future problems by borrowing, he said. In …
READ MORE“Fisher said a more pressing problem is that recent fiscal and regulatory policies are not necessarily conducive to economic growth – a message he hears from many business contacts. “The prevailing sentiment is that politicians and officials who craft …
READ MORE“Just pretending that we can continue with the same monetary policy, the same Federal Reserve system, and all these guarantees sort of concedes that we’re going to have another bubble. If we have regulations and plans for how we distribute these assets …
READ MORE“Federal Reserve officials were divided at their Aug. 10 meeting over whether they should resume purchases of Treasury bonds and what impact the move could have on the nation’s economy, according to minutes released Tuesday. In the end, the Fed’s polic …
READ MORE“For a conference this coming weekend, I’m reading a fascinating series of radio debates between Senator Robert Taft and Representative T. V. Smith that took place during the late 1930s. In the final installment, Taft is summing up his concerns about t …
READ MORE“Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) said he plans to introduce legislation next year to force an audit of U.S. holdings of gold. Paul, a longtime critic of the Federal Reserve and U.S. monetary policy, said he believes it’s “a possibility” that there might not ac …
READ MORE“The stimulus is causing an artificial rebound in the economy that cannot be maintained, says Jerry Jordan, former president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland.” Watch it here. “The Recovery is Artificial” Jerry Jordan MoneyShow.com, August 19, …
READ MORE“Federal Reserve policymakers and many of the world’s other top central bankers are gathering Thursday for their annual retreat and symposium in the shadow of the Grand Tetons. They are also meeting in the shadow of looming economic and financial probl …
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