Monetary Policy

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Mihai Macovei

There are no more rabbits for the Fed monetary magicians to pull out of their hats. In an economy addicted to artificially low interest rates, any more moves by the Fed will trigger an economic downturn.

Jan M. Fijor

The Nigerian government should have seen the economic disaster the eNaira would cause. They didn’t, and chaos and rioting followed.

Douglas French

Decades of low interest rates have ruined saving in the US economy, and banks are going to pay dearly for it.

Patrick Barron

Keynes denounced monetary gold as "a barbarous relic." In the end, it will be that "barbarous relic" that overthrows the regime of paper currency.

Brendan Brown

Supposedly, the "big news" is the decline of inflation. However, the monetary and political forces driving the latest bout of inflation have not gone away.

Patrick Barron

Since the end of World War II, the US dollar has been the world's reserve currency. That status may well change because US monetary authorities insist on inflating the dollar into oblivion.

David Brady, Jr.

We should not just be concerned about problems in the American banking system, but also about the proliferation of Eurodollars.