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https://x.com/StevenHailAus/status/1787275244589424987First, functional finance. I have read Lerner's famous article many times, and I find little to disagree with in it; on the contrary, I mostly agree with it. As a long-time proponent of NGDP targeting, why wouldn't I? Lerner here is very much one of us!
https://twitter.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1786272981058220187While the U.S. government could finance all its spending without borrowing or collecting taxes, those are two ways for it to get the public to abstain from acquiring real resources.
https://twitter.com/johnarnoldfndtn/status/1768290299380449285So let’s look at unemployment. Here’s the preFed record according J. R. Vernon; not great but not godawful, either:
https://twitter.com/georgeselgin/status/1739400093994766360I wrote an article long ago proposing and giving evidence for what I called a “legal restrictions” theory of financial crises. citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid…
https://twitter.com/noahpinion/status/1739387249815605613Instead, stupid U.S. banking and currency laws made it uniquely crisis-prone during that era. This is common knowledge among U.S. economic and monetary historians. 2/
https://twitter.com/georgeselgin/status/1722436052416180572It happens that I’m in Vilnius now, for the first time in 32 years. Back in 1990 and 1991 I was here putting together, with Kurt Schuler, the first- ever proposal for a post-Soviet eastern European currency board.
https://twitter.com/Pat_Horan92/status/1694380727553396952First, some preliminaries. Let's set aside the ZLB problem for now, and also abstract for the time being from Aggregate Supply (AS) innovations. Let the equilibrium real GDP growth rate be a steady 2%.
https://twitter.com/sovereignorigin/status/1673441374094475265"Free banking had centralized governance within banks. In Zero...the community calls the shots. It’s like everyone gets a vote."
https://twitter.com/FriedrichHayek/status/1666990351704526848I attended NYU, under an Austrian (Moorman) fellowship, before there was any such thing as a distinct set of "Rothbardian" Austrians. Some posts here have claimed that graduates of the NYU programs, as well as Austrian economists trained at UCLU or GMU, have perfectly open minds.
https://twitter.com/OnAssholes/status/1662204245037453312First, just about anything--food, automobiles, machinery, electronic equipment, houses, spectator sports--might be said to be "of common concern in a republic." It hardly follows from this alone that a case therefore exists for them to be provided by state authorities.
https://twitter.com/michaelsderby/status/1661394902469472256The main argument for a higher inflation rate target is that it reduces the risk that the Fed will run up against the interest rate zero lower bound. But a nominal spending target can also reduce that risk without raising the average inflation rate. cato.org/blog/reifschne…
https://twitter.com/TheStalwart/status/1653722550038298624As @lawrencehwhite1 and I have pointed out, another factor has has played a very large part in the development of monetary arrangements, namely, governments desire to monopolize and otherwise control money production for the _fiscal_ reasons, that is, to enhance their funding.
https://twitter.com/fawfulfan/status/1647742604736430082First, I agree that the U.S. suffered numerous monetary "train wrecks" before the Fed was established. That was why it was established, after all. But it's also true that there have been many wrecks since, and that in other respects the Fed's record leaves much to be desired.
https://twitter.com/john_at_swan/status/1641075268155580421First, it bears noting how the critics of free banking are always placing the burden of proof on those who say it worked. @lawrencehwhite1 and Kevin Dowd and I have carried this burden with countless publications. But we should not always have to do so.
https://twitter.com/loogic/status/1639517098035535874In fact, "centuries of jurisprudence" have upheld the principle, dating from ancient times, that ownership of loose coin or other fungible money "deposited" with a bank, follows possession. alt-m.org/2017/09/06/the…
https://twitter.com/terryangelos/status/1640360363324772354TNB was not granted a charter because it intended to be what the Fed calls a "Pass Though Investment Entity" (PTIE), which isn't a retail bank at all, but a device aimed to allowing non-bank financial institutions to tap into the Fed's IOR rate. alt-m.org/2018/09/10/the… 2/
https://twitter.com/WallStreetSilv/status/1638278756090499100Of course, any fiat regime needs a CB “anchor,” but all that means is that we must hope and pray that CB’s won’t issue oodles if the stuff! Whatever their other shortcomings, conmodity standards were more, not less, reliably “anchored.” Seehttps://www.jstor.org/stable/135820