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croakingcassandra.com
Former chairman of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors (and FOMC) Ben Bernanke was yesterday the first of two keynote speakers at the Reserve Bank's conference to mark 35 years of inflation targeting, which first became a formalised thing here in New Zealand. He indicated that he'd be speaking about inflation targeting in general and... |
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www.frbsf.org
The Federal Reserve has evolved since the "Great Inflation" of the 1970s. With new tools and a deeper understanding of the importance of transparency, it is better prepared to meet the dual mandate goals of price stability and full employment, even in challenging times. The following is adapted from remarks by the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco to the Los Angeles World Affairs Council & Town Hall on February 23. |
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libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org
The debate about the natural rate of interest, or r*, sometimes overlooks the point that there is an entire term structure of r* measures, with short-run estimates capturing current economic conditions and long-run estimates capturing more secular factors. The whole term structure of r* matters for policy: shorter run measures are relevant for gauging how restrictive or expansionary current policy is, while longer run measures are relevant when assessing terminal rates. This two-post series covers the ev... |
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www.greshm.org
Let's conduct a thought experiment. Imagine that the government is a black box whose internal workings are completely opaque to us. We know that this black box can add money to the economy through spending or remove money from the economy through taxation. But we have no idea why the government is administering fiscal policy (spending and taxing) the way it is. This thought experiment allows us to consider the effects of fiscal policy without becoming distracted by its underlying politics. |
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