monetary policy

In anticipation of the state visit by Chinese Leader Hu Jintao, I spoke about the pressure on US politicians to do something about the Chinese currency problem with RT America's Alyona Minkovski on the Alyona Show last night. The video is…

By Claus Vistesen It would have been hard to believe only a few weeks ago that the euro zone could be the source of any good news, let alone news to help push the market forward. Yet, with last week’s successful bond auctions and the…

Marc, you have been very quiet. What are you worrying about? Faber: Have you got an hour? You are all wrong. You say you would do this or that if you were policymakers, but nobody says "I wouldn't do a thing. I would let the market…

CNBC has a lot of good guests on this week. Here's another clip from earlier today. This time it's Stephen Roach talking about asymmetric monetary policy and financial bubbles. Roach believes the Fed needs to entirely rethink its policy…

Former Atlanta Fed President William Ford says, technically, yes, the Fed can go bankrupt. He argues that the Fed's balance sheet is highly leveraged as a result of quantitative easing expanding its balance sheet. The result is that the…

This from today's Fed Beige Book survey: Reports from the twelve Federal Reserve Districts suggest that economic activity continued to expand moderately from November through December. Conditions were said to be improving in the Boston,…

by Annaly Capital Management An interesting recent piece by Reuven Glick and Kevin J. Lansing of the San Francisco Fed looks to explain changes in the savings rate over time. On an aggregate level, the authors point out that the savings…

by Edward Harrison The US post-bubble experience is often compared to the Japanese post-bubble experience. I have written a number of posts on the Japanese experience myself. Here are a number from 2008: A cautionary tale: story from…

By L. Randall Wray The following is a paper given at the ASSA conference in Denver this past week for a panel organized by James Galbraith, titled Pressures on the Paradigm, sponsored by Economists for Peace & Security. The Queen…