Economic Policy & Development
epub |eng | | Author:Philip Mirowski & Quinn Slobodian

Conferences, Think Tanks and the Nixon Administration: Freedom Fighters in Action When Milton Friedman published his article calling for flexible exchange rates in 1953, fewer than 5 percent of economists ...
( Category: Economic Policy July 1,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-25 | Author:James Laxer [Laxer, James]

The British command shifted to Major General Roger Hale Sheaffe, who quickly mobilized his forces to drive the Americans from Canadian soil. He dispatched the 41st’s Light Company, under the ...
( Category: Democracy July 1,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-05-05 | Author:Gene Sperling [Sperling, Gene]

CHOOSING JOBS PROGRAMS WISELY I have focused on double-dignity jobs that involve the direct services from one American to another, services that provide dignified work and lift up the dignity ...
( Category: Economic Policy June 30,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-08-23 | Author:Eric A. Posner

* * * 114 * chaPTer Five Before the net worth sweep, Fannie and Freddie had recovered to the ex- tent that they could have paid all their debts, fulfilled ...
( Category: Economic Policy June 30,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Maximilian Fandl

Overall, bank balance sheets showed roughly similar shares of intra-financial exposures and exposures to nonfinancial businesses or individuals in the precrisis period. Figure 3.2 shows the aggregate bank balance sheet ...
( Category: Economic Policy June 29,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-09-09 | Author:Greta R. Krippner [Krippner, Greta R.]

The Evolution of U.S. Monetary Policy: 1979–2001 For many years, central bankers took it as an article of faith that monetary policy could only be effective when the Federal Reserve ...
( Category: Economic Policy June 29,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Wei Liu

The Maritime Silk Road Strategy Prompts Coastal Nations to Establish Safety Standards for Shipping The Maritime Silk Road is to be connected by ports and put into use via shipping ...
( Category: Economic Policy June 28,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-03-30 | Author:Clive Hamilton & Mareike Ohlberg [Clive Hamilton & Mareike Ohlberg]

The Hong Kong connection CCP-linked money has been finding its way into the coffers of influential think tanks via the China-United States Exchange Foundation, which also funds the United States ...
( Category: Economic Policy June 28,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Patrick J. Michaels

We are now at the stage where only a very few are “observing the anomaly,” in no small part because there is very little incentive and a lot of professional ...
( Category: Economic Policy June 12,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-06-09 | Author:Stephanie Kelton [KELTON, STEPHANIE]

Other Entitlements Are Also in Danger I’ve spent a lot of time talking about Social Security because its financial structure illustrates how the deficit myth leads to poor decision-making and ...
( Category: Economic Policy June 9,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-04-30 | Author:Howard Baetjer

9 The Problems with Price Controls Consequences of Interfering with Free-Market Pricing Price controls are pieces of legislation that set either lower limits or upper limits—floors or ceilings—on legally permissible ...
( Category: Economic Policy June 9,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Raghuram G. Rajan

CHAPTER SEVEN Betting the Bank ROUGHLY 60 PERCENT of all asset-backed securities were rated AAA during the lending boom, whereas typically less than 1 percent of all corporate bonds are ...
( Category: Economic Policy June 6,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Kliman, Andrew; [Kliman, Andrew]

Figure 7.4 shows the cumulative percentage changes since 1947 in the rate of profit and its components. On the one hand, we see that short-term movements in the rate of ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism May 31,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-09-05 | Author:Christopher W. Shaw [Shaw, Christopher W.]

“Cooperation and Not Conflict” The inclusion of agriculture and labor in New Deal policymaking imparted these groups with stature. “Labor has improved its status tremendously,” Perkins observed. This new standing ...
( Category: Economic Policy May 20,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Robin Hahnel

Myths about Deficits and the National Debt Much popular thinking about federal government debt and deficits is based on the following analogy: “If I keep borrowing, going farther and farther ...
( Category: Economic Policy May 14,2020 )