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“The Debt Crisis Is Here”: The Conference Board Is At It Again

The Committee for Economic Development (CED) of Conference Board recently put out “Explainer: The National Debt” which is pretty much ...

Primer: Why Not Used Fixed Consumption Baskets In The CPI?

This article is an unedited draft section from my inflation primer manuscript. This section is a re-write of content that ...

TIPS And Drying Paint

One of the issues of an interest rate focussed blog is that bond markets can settle into rather uneventful extended ...

What Is Neoclassical Economics?

I ran into an interesting question online: what is neoclassical macroeconomics? I use neoclassical economics as a synonym for “modern ...

Inflation Hedging: Do Not Ask For The Impossible

I ran into this article on inflation hedging with inflation-linked bonds from FT Alphaville. I just scanned it quickly, but ...

Why The “Friedman Thermostat” Analogy Should Be Uncomfortable For The Mainstream

Nick Rowe’s article on Milton Friedman’s Thermostat has popped up in online conversation. For those of you unfamiliar with it, ...

Waller Comments

Nick Timiroas highlighted an exchange from Fed Governor Waller (link to speech/interview transcript) on Twitter. This article consists of two ...

A Response To A Question About Post-Keynesian Interest Rate Theories (…And A Rant)

I got a question about references for post-Keynesian theories of interest rates. My answer to this has a lot of ...

A Non-Forecast 2024 Outlook

Since I am not in the forecasting game, I not on top of what the consensus views are. I also ...

Central Banks And Crises

This article is a wrapping up of a sequence of articles on the topic of “central banks as banks,” which ...

Should Everybody Have An Account At The Central Bank?

This will be my last posting before Christmas, and depending on what I get up to, possibly the last of ...

Should Central Banks Lend Unsecured To The Private Sector?

This article continues my sequence of articles on central banks as banks, which is projected to be a chapter in ...

Using Fed Projections To Infer The Term Premium?

I was passed along the article “Views from the Floor — Tighter and Tighter” by the Man Institute published last ...

The Central Bank And Government Finance

This article continues the sequence of articles on central banks as banks. This article was as brief as possible since ...

Central Bank Balance Sheets

This article continues my series of articles on central banks as banks. Central bank balance sheets (in the modern era, ...

Central Bank Banking Basics

This article continues the plan outlined in the previous article “Central Banks as Banks.” As I described therein, this is ...

Central Banks As Banks

My plan is to write a draft what should become a chapter for my banking book. The inflation manuscript is ...

“So How Did You Lose Money Buying Risk-Free Bonds?”

The title of this article is deliberately silly, but there are times where I just need to be deliberately silly ...

Employment-Population Ratio Revisited

I have been writing some manuscript comments about labour market capacity constraints and inflation, which I hinted at in my ...

No, QE Is Not Costless

I ran across a couple lame attempts at blaming the U.S. Treasury for not extending the duration of issuance during ...

Inflation Theories

I have been editing sections of my manuscript, and nothing out of that writing output is publishable here (since it ...

“Paying For Two Wars”

Comments by Treasury Secretary Yellen and President Biden about “paying for two wars” has attracted some chatter. For example, Adam ...

Slopes And Recession Probabilities

Menzie Chinn just published a short note “Inversions, Bear Steepening Dis-Inversions, and Recessions.” He was responding to an article that ...

Comments On Logan Speech

Lorie Logan of the Dallas Fed gave a recent speech in which the term premium figured. Although I think Logan’s ...
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