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This week, on January 4, 2023, John Cochrane, Mickey Levy, Kevin Warsh & I spoke by Zoom at a policy roundtable on the increase in inflation and possible causes at the Hoover Economic Policy Working Group. It was an important … Continue reading →

Informative NPR interview and discussion with me https://www.npr.org/2022/11/02/1133720724/john-taylors-formula-for-the-fed conducted by Darian Woods and Mary Childs on the Fed’s decision to raise rates and the Taylor Rule. Good questions and good answers with excerpts from Jay Powell and Janet Yellen. Here … Continue reading →

A beautiful book, edited by Robert King and Alexander Wolman, https://www.richmondfed.org/-/media/RichmondFedOrg/publications/research/goodfriend/essays_marvin_goodfriend.pdf with original essays in tribute by Alfred Broaddus Jr., Donald Kohn, William Poole, Kartik Athreya and Stephen Williamson, Ben Bernanke, Michael Bordo and Edward Prescott, Douglas Diamond, Michael Dotsey, … Continue reading →

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s testimony at the House and Senate this week again had much to say about monetary policy rules. The focus on policy rules is encouraging, as it is a way to both get back on track … Continue reading →

Last March, I quoted Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on this Economics One blog post https://economicsone.com/2022/03/03/well-have-it-in-the-next-one-well-bring-them-back-for-the-july-said-chair-powell-at-the-house-yesterday-and-at-the-senate-today/  from his March 2 and March 3 testimony at the House and Senate that “WE’LL HAVE IT IN THE NEXT ONE.”  He was responding … Continue reading →

On Friday May 6, we held our annual Monetary Policy Conference at the Hoover Institution at Stanford. This year it was entitled: “How Monetary Policy Got Behind the Curve and How to Get Back,” and the title turned out to … Continue reading →

At hearings of the House Financial Services Committee yesterday, and of the Senate Banking Committee today, Fed Chair Jerome Powel was asked about why he and the Federal Reserve Board omitted the section on monetary policy rules in the just … Continue reading →

Today, John Cochrane, Mickey Levy, Kevin Warsh & I spoke at a roundtable discussion on the Fed’s monetary policy at the Hoover Economic Policy Working Group. Cochrane talked about the fiscal side, Levy about the best inflation measures, Warsh about … Continue reading →

Bill McGurn make a lot of good references to Milton Friedman in a video just posted on the Wall Street Journal web site. We hear Milton talking about the power of the market. https://www.wsj.com/video/series/main-street-mcgurn/wsj-opinion-joe-biden-milton-friedman-and-a-lesson-in-inflation/E3400D7C-AA91-49CC-8341-65721E37BDF4 It is a great video and … Continue reading →

I am very happy to say that the new edition of Principles of Economics v9.1 is now officially published. Here is where you can find it on the FlatWorld web page: https://catalog.flatworldknowledge.com/catalog/editions/principles-of-economics-9-1.  It has been pleasure for me to continue … Continue reading →