Monetary Theory

In his new NBER working paper Martin Feldstein writes that "Reducing the large current account deficit will require both a higher rate of national saving and a more competitive dollar."

I love it: "a more competitive dollar"

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The ancient transgressions of murder, pillage, bestiality, thievery, and rape still shout from the headlines. O Tempora, O Mores, as the ancients proclaimed in dismay a couple millennia ago: meaning what crummy people, what crummy times. They ought to read this morning's paper — they'd yearn for...

Sophistpundit gives What Has Government Done to Our Money (print,...

In a neat admission that his bosses are rotting the money in our pockets, Chicago Fed economist Francois Velde has come up with a bright idea: debase the nickel by a factor of five!

"The problem [of the...