Monthly Archives: June 2014

Stanford’s Economics 1 Now Coming Online

Posted on June 18, 2014 by John Taylor

I have been teaching economics at Stanford for many years. Economics 1 is one of my favorite courses, and it’s been one of the most popular courses at Stanford.  I usually teach it in a large lecture hall with hundreds … Continue reading →

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Policy Rules When Money Still Matters

Posted on June 8, 2014 by John Taylor

In an interesting recent paper and blog post “Money Still Matters,” Michael Belongia and Peter Ireland report new empirical results with relevance to monetary policy.  They show that the Divisia index of the money supply (not M1 or M2) has effects on … Continue reading →

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Ten Amusingly Irreverent Tweets at Conference on Fed

Posted on June 3, 2014 by John Taylor

So many members of the financial press were having a good time tweeting at the Fed Centennial conference last week at Stanford that, according the “TweetReach Report,” about 1 million Twitter accounts were reached and 10 million tweets were delivered … Continue reading →

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