All Articles tagged Federal Reserve
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February 27, 2024 CDT How do we move toward sound money? Brendan Brown describes the Fed's corruption of the monetary base and how sound money might be restored.
- Notes and Replies
February 08, 2024 CDT Patrick Newman argues that the 1919-1920 business cycle was due to monetary expansion, and that Borazan's (2023) "administrative decree" about resuming expansionary policy is inapplicable. Wage cuts aided recovery.
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November 20, 2023 CDT Is it unconstitutional to enforce a debt ceiling? Has the US government really never defaulted? Is there no alternative to raising the debt ceiling? Kupiec and Pollock investigate common claims.
- Book Reviews
July 29, 2023 CDT Greg Kaza reviews Ben Bernanke's new retrospective on the Fed, which contains interesting admissions but still exhibits a "state of denial" about the Fed's role in creating crises.
- Book Reviews
July 06, 2023 CDT An excellent primer for those who wish understand the opacities of modern money, Brown and Pringle's new book also suggests monetary reforms, including a gold standard. Review by Joseph Solis-Mullen.
- Book Reviews
September 01, 2022 CDT Joseph Solis-Mullen reviews Lev Menand's new book that, as Solis-Mullen says, "confirms everything Austrians have been saying all along."
- Book Reviews
September 01, 2022 CDT Brendan Brown reviews Ben Bernanke's optimistic case for monetary policy, in which the former chairman apparently forgot nothing and learned nothing.
- Articles
June 03, 2022 CDT Alex Pollock's Henry Hazlitt Memorial Lecture, given at the 2022 Austrian Economics Research Conference, surveys the Fed's foray into mortgage markets. As Hazlitt said, "the ardor for inflation never dies."
- Book Reviews
January 10, 2022 CDT Peter Earle reviews Boettke, Salter, and Smith's argument that the rule of law should be brought to bear on the Federal Reserve, to rein in its distortions and disruptions.