Politicians Play With Fire by Risking Inflation
The value of our money may be the latest victim of pandemic-era policy.
The value of our money may be the latest victim of pandemic-era policy.
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The market's failure to produce an ideal outcome cannot alone justify activist policy, because governments can also fail to produce the ideal.
By lowering the “travel rule” threshold to $250, the government could access more of our financial data.
The danger of the virus can’t be considered to the exclusion of the need for jobs and prosperity.
The government is doing what it can to help out Big Money.
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Some economists believe that a negative interest rate policy will stimulate the economy by reducing the cost of loans. That isn’t how it has worked in practice.
The Reason Roundtable discusses Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell's 60 Minutes admission, as well as the Libertarian Party presidential race post-Justin Amash
The 1961 speech by President Dwight Eisenhower foreshadowed the current government's response to COVID-19.
The disease will leave behind a residue of laws, spending, and precedents for future government actions.
Paired with a new round of quantitative easing, the Fed takes us back to the 2008 playbook.
Series of huge short-term loans to financial services presages a new era of "quantitative easing" and Fed balance sheet growth
The Federal Reserve's impact on the real-time payments market all hinges on its willingness to play by the rules.
Milton Friedman once said that "money is much too serious a matter to be left to the central bankers." He was right. Still, we should ensure the Fed isn't being swayed by partisan interests.
The rate cut is too little, too late for Trump, who says after the move that his Fed chair lacks "guts, sense, vision"
Such a move would emulate other economies, risk inflationary bubbles, and benefit his businesses.
There's an inherent conflict of interest when an agency serves as both a regulator and competitor.
Plus: Ohio vice cop indicted for murder, FFC would police "the new kids online beat," and crony Federal Reserve appointments on the way?
Fed governors like Herman Cain or Stephen Moore are likely to want to goose short term apparent prosperity to help the president politically. That's a bad idea.
Former BB&T Bank CEO John Allison vs. Moody's Mark Zandi
Chairman Jerome Powell says they are putting their money in risky, unbacked investments built on reckless speculation.
Trump worries that the Fed chief's predictable interest rate policy could impair the economic growth needed to make his tax policies viable.
Minutes from the Fed's June meeting indicate that it will continue gradual interest rate hikes.
"The economy is not like an engine that's going too hard," so let's stop analyzing it like one.
Instead of limiting what risks banks can take, the government should force banks to live with the consequences of those risks.
Given the state of the modern GOP, that's a very big "if." But the senator is trying for a vote again this week.
Q&A with Michael Goldstein and Pierre Rochard of the Satoshi Nakamoto Institute.
The former 1988 Libertarian nominee and 2008 and 2012 Republican candidate for president says Trump is just a temporary setback for the libertarian moment.
Analysts expect little substantive change from the previous Janet Yellen regime.
The Federal Reserve Transparency Act would not politicize the Fed, but will provide Congress with more information.
A version of the bill has been introduced since 2009.
Headed to House floor for eventual debate and vote.
A book about the birth of the Federal Reserve overlooks the flaws in the system.
Fed's turned stock market into a "hall of mirrors," Jim Grant says.
Sanders and Paul on same side on oversight issue.
The senator talks about his Audit the Fed vote tomorrow, why he belongs on the main debate stage, and how the GOP 'needs to become more diverse, not only ideologically but ethnically as well'
Embedded in the move is even larger interest on reserves payout to banks.
An executive whose bank faltered while he was highly compensated reviews a book on the Fed for the New York Times.
Continuing to keep interest rates near zero, as the past few years of that haven't done enough good.
Perhaps stock prices for past few years were to a large extent an inflationary bubble.