The Fed

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C.Jay Engel

Tim Duy takes to Bloomberg to warn the world about the possibility of "hard-money" advocates getting into the Fed.

Tho Bishop
The idea that the Federal Reserve is "independent" is at best naive, and at worse purposefully misleading.
C.Jay Engel
Fed Chair Janet Yellen’s recent speech at Stanford University certainly was much like Ms. Yellen herself: predictable and safe.
C.Jay Engel

2017 will be an interesting year with the uncertainty of a Trump administration and the growing need for fiscal policy reform ahead.

Jeff Deist
Today Donald Trump becomes president of the United States. Voters rejected the devil they know so well — Hillary Clinton — for the devil they don’t.
Patrick Newman
Roger Lowenstein's new book on the Federal Reserve relies on some well-worn myths about the monetary history of the United States.
Ron Paul

The only way to avoid fiscal crises is to stop increasing spending and instead begin reducing spending on all aspects of the welfare-warfare state.

Tho Bishop

If a monetary rule like the Taylor Rule is not a solution to the problem of the Fed, what is? Competition.

Ryan McMaken

The Fed keeps hinting that it plans to raise the target rate more than once this year. But, the Fed's level of confidence is near zero.