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Ending the Fed’s Emergency Lending Facilities: Mnuchin v. Waters
On November 19, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin announced that he would sunset five of the Federal Reserve’s emergency lending programs…
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Janet Yellen’s Lift Off (CMFA Working Paper No. 001)
JanetYellensLiftOff_GeorgeSelgin_CMFAWP001 The post Janet Yellen’s Lift Off (CMFA Working Paper No. 001) appeared first on Alt-M.
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The Wide World of ESG
Remember the Wide World of Sports? Spanning the globe to bring you the constant variety of sport… the thrill of…
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Residential Home Prices in USA: What Will Decide the Next Decade
Buying and selling residential property in the US is an important factor for the USA economy overall, as historically seen…
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E Pluribus, Unum? Federal Reserve Provision of Retail Accounts
This is the third and final essay in my series on proposals to help reduce the number of unbanked households…
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Law of Large Numbers and the Central Limit Theorem (With Python)
Statistics does not usually go with the word “famous,” but a few theorems and concepts of statistics find such universal…
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The Economy Won’t Be Back To Normal Until 2022 Or Later, According To Our Survey Of Economists
It’s been about four months since the National Bureau of Economic Research declared that the U.S. was officially in a…
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Going Postal? Proposals for Post-Office Banking in 2020
In my last post, I discussed the experience of “postal savings” in America—its origins and how its flawed legislative design…
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September’s Jobs Report Is A Political Rorschach Test
The final jobs report before the presidential election is here. In September, 661,000 more people were employed than in August,…
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Experts Think The Economy Would Be Stronger If COVID-19 Lockdowns Had Been More Aggressive
Back in the early days of the coronavirus in the U.S., many economists believed that aggressive lockdowns would be the…
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