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• Why The Federal Reserve Needs To Be Independent

  
  Economist's View — Authority: 698
  At MoneyWatch: Why The Federal Reserve Needs To Be Independent, by Mark Thoma
  11 hours ago

• Anchoring interest rate expectations

  
  Urbanomics — Authority: 130
  In uncertain times like the present, where interest rates are ruling at historic lows, government deficits are mounting, and inflationary pressures (atleast in the medium to long term) remain a strong possibility, one of the more important goals of monetary policy making is to remove uncertainty about interest rate ...
  15 hours ago

• Mishkin’s idea of bubbles and lessons from economic history

  
  Mostly Economics — Authority: 501
  I am pretty late on this. There is already a fair bit of criticism on the new Mishkin bubble article  (see Eurointelligence , Caroline Baum , TT Ram Mohan  etc etc). He says there are 2 kinds of bubbles. One credit boom bubble and second irrational exuberance bubble. First causes damages and needs to be looked ...
  16 hours ago

• Financial INstitution Regulation--Dodds proposals

  
  ataxingmatter — Authority: 118
  Well over a year into the financial crisis, we still have no new approach to too big to fail (TBTF) banks, no new approach to exotic derivatives including synthetic CDOs, credit default swaps and others; no new approach to foreclosures; no new approach to regulation of the speculative, nonproductive activity that ...
  16 hours ago

• Bernanke gets politics lessons

  
  Mostly Economics — Authority: 501
  NYT has a superb article  on how Bernanke is getting political lessons. Ron Paul, Texas Republican wants to audit the Fed and take control of Fed. Bernanke has been opposing the move in his speeches/testimonies (see this  previous post for the debate). So the article explains how furious the politicians are and ...
  20 hours ago

• The Mother of All Fiscal Reforms

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 162
  Congress is trying to clean up the mess from our easy money fiasco. Grab your galoshes… some serious slop to wade through today. Sen. Chris Dodd unveiled a whopper of a bill this week, one that might cause the biggest financial and monetary shakeup… umm… ever. Like most of Congress, we’ve barely cracked the ...
  1 day ago

• The Mother of All Fiscal Reforms

  
  The Daily Reckoning — Authority: 640
  Congress is trying to clean up the mess from our easy money fiasco. Grab your galoshes… some serious slop to wade through today. Sen. Chris Dodd unveiled a whopper of a bill this week, one that might cause the biggest financial and monetary shakeup… umm… ever. Like most of Congress, we’ve barely cracked the ...
  1 day ago

• Exchange Rate vs. Inflation Target

  
  The Progressive Economics Forum — Authority: 425
  The Canadian dollar is again becoming more overvalued. After dipping as low as 92 US cents at the end of October, it rocketed up to 96 US cents so far today. Meanwhile, the OECD has released another month of purchasing-power data . Although the loonie’s average price on foreign-exchange markets edged up between ...
  1 day ago

• Bank Of England Preparing To Blow Bubble Of Unprecedented Proportions

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 763
  In the latest attempt to prove that nobody ever learns anything from history, the Bank Of England is practically betting the Devonshire farm that by putting the UKs economy on nitrous, it will recapture all the lost output during the recession, and that it will be able to time the stimulus exit perfectly, thus ...
  1 day ago

• Producing Assets Uses Resources that Could Have been Used to Produce Consumption Goods and Services

  
  Cafe Hayek — Authority: 672
  Here’s a letter that I sent yesterday to the Washington Post : Robert Samuelson writes that “Depression prevention means supporting consumption and asset markets” (” The next economic bubble? ” Nov. 10).  This claim contains a modicum of truth resting atop a mountain of misunderstanding. What’s true ...
  1 day ago

• More of the same tired arguments against Ron Paul’s Fed Audit Bill

  
  Liberty Maven Liberty Maven: For Liberty, One Individual At A Time — Authority: 536
  Ron Paul’s bill to audit the Federal Reserve (HR.1207) has over 300 cosponsors, well above 2/3rds of the House, including every single House Republican. A few days ago an opinion piece appeared in the Wall Street Journal arguing that the Federal Reserve is already transparent enough and that a full audit would be ...
  1 day ago

• Ben Bernanke, regular guy

  
  The Economist: Daily news and views — Authority: 709
  Congress quizzes the Fed on baseball, for some reason EDMUND ANDREWS has an interesting New York Times story up, concerning the developing political savvy of Fed chairman Ben Bernanke. There are some disconcerting elements to the piece; Mr Bernanke is doing his best to secure certain ...
  1 day ago

• Central Bank Tightens Policy A Notch, But What Is It Saying About The Yuan?

  
  China Bystander — Authority: 123
  Pay less notice to the latest monthly industrial production and retail sales figures — both up 16% in October from a year before, with the trade surplus almost doubling from September, to $24 billion, as the contraction in exports eased to its slowest pace this year — and more to the subsequent statement by the ...
  1 day ago

• "The Fed Is Already Transparent"

  
  Economist's View — Authority: 698
  Anil Kashyap and Frederic Mishkin are worried that the Ron Paul proposal to audit the Fed will "cripple policy making": The Fed Is Already Transparent, by Anil Kashyap and Frederic Mishkin : Under the banner of increasing Federal Reserve transparency, Congressman Ron Paul has sponsored a bill that would subject the ...
  1 day ago

• The Empire’s Last Stand: Real Interest Rates

  
  Wall Street Pit — Authority: 644
  You may recall that a week ago I made a sort of “Emperor has no clothes” accusation against the economics profession.  I claimed that economists are always talking about “easy money” and “tight money” without have any coherent definition, indeed not even knowing that they have no coherent...
  1 day ago

• Too complex to Fail

  
  Mostly Economics — Authority: 501
  As if Too Big to Fail was not enough to digest, IMF warns of a new risk- Too Complex to Fail. In its new paper , IMF adds the real problem is too complex to fail. A snapshot of the paper findings is here . According to the paper, factors that might be considered indicators of a firm’s vulnerability, and its ...
  1 day ago

• Everything Old Is (Really Not) New Again

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 763
  By Marla Singer and Geoffrey Batt Everything old is new again.  Except... not really.  Go back, for instance, to September 1974. Click to Play Black and white television is not, as it happens, new again.  True, Steve Jobs is already wearing black turtleneck and glasses, but hes named William Simon.  A ...
  2 days ago

• Gold Price Says U.S. Monetary and Fiscal Policy Stinks

  
  Whiskey & Gunpowder — Authority: 548
  The Fed’s been carrying on with its wayward monetary policy. And it’s carried on with the carry trade by keeping short-term rates low. In deciding to make hardly any changes to its interest rate policy or even the language from its last statement, the Fed is encouraging traders to resume the dollar carry trade. ...
  2 days ago

• A Plug for Financial Fiasco

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 740
  The distinguished Harvard economist Richard N. Cooper, former president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, praises Johan Norberg’s Financial Fiasco: How America’s Infatuation With Homeownership and Easy Money Created the Economic Crisis in Foreign Affairs : The economic crisis of 2008-9 will no doubt ...
  2 days ago

• All bubbles are equal, but some bubbles are more equal than others

  
  Credit Writedowns — Authority: 664
  Columbia University Professor and former Federal Reserve official Frederic Mishkin wrote a much-discussed Op-Ed in the Financial Times yesterday. In it, he asks Are potential asset-price bubbles always dangerous? He answers this question with a no, noting that some asset bubbles are more dangerous than others ...
  2 days ago

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