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The Money Illusion; market monetarist views on Fed policy.
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August 2026 links
Plus brief thoughts on Jackson Hole
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Say’s Law in China
Why China needs to produce much more output
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On the bigness of China
How international borders distort our thinking
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Our monetary Rube Goldberg device
Endogenous money isn't what you think it is
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John Cochrane on monetarism
Plus a pushback against AI's unhealthy obsession with fiscal policy
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Basil Halperin on sticky wage models
Why wage inflation is what matters
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Thoughts on inflation and monetary policy
Be careful what you ask for
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July 2026 links
Plus another reply to Fable
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Not just a cheap date
Fable is more like a high end escort
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Fable responds
My conversation with Fable (and hence the profession) continues
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Why is Fable a Keynesian?
And where does IS-LM come from?
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The empire strikes back
Objections to the market monetarist explanation of 2008-09
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Kakistocracy
Hanania explains why politics is getting dumber
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Films of 2026:Q2
Plus a new sponsor and a major milestone
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Scott Sumner
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Alan Greenspan, RIP
Plus links from June 2026
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America's non-violent future
Plus: Trends in (pot/booze/cigarette/opioid) addiction
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The silent revolutionaries
Babies don't create public policy
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The world is bigger than you can imagine
Why it is difficult to evaluate an economy
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The South China shock and the world's biggest rustbelt
Thoughts on the Chinese economy
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The great helmsman?
Don't steer the car, move the road
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Ever more links (5/20/26)
Too busy to write a new post
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The Great Forgetting
How motivated reasoning frames economic debates
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Basil Halperin on eclectically optimal policy
Plus thoughts on monetary policy and the current economy
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The beauty of tautologies
Seeing the world in a new way
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Monetary policy and libertarianism
More specifically, pragmatic libertarianism
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Virginia Woolf on writing
And the implications for blogging
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Who's afraid of the money supply?
The taboo on money talk
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A painter's painter
Why the Prado is special
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Random observations
The first 22 out of 44 are free
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Conflict and competence
Why fanaticism loses in the long run
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The odd disappearance of the business cycle
And the futility of macro forecasts
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Difficulty increases desire
Where the NBA lost the plot
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Too good to be true
The CRFB's plan to save Social Security
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Films of 2026: Q1
Plus random observations on TV and books
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The end of economics?
Tyler Cowen's requiem for Chicago price theory
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Paid subscriptions
Time to pay the piper
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When the dog doesn't bark
How non-events bias our thinking
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No “wait and see”
Using markets to evaluate public policies
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Fiscal shocks, inflation and the Lucas Critique
Why I'm skeptical of fiscal theories of inflation
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Imagine three Chinas
Revisiting "India as #1", 16 years later
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Freak Out!
When it's time to panic
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A scoundrel's last refuge
Good and bad patriotism
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