Dictionary money joni Juli 21, 2017 Add Comment coins, Nick Rowe, Unidad de Fomento, unit of account Edit Nick Rowe points out that if a central bank wants to control the economy's price level, it needn't issue any actual money—it can ju... Read More
Kocherlakota on cash joni September 02, 2016 Add Comment anonymity, Bill Woolsey, Bitcoin, cash, Fedcoin, fintech, free banking, George Selgin, Kurt Schuler, Larry White, Narayana Kocherlakota, Nick Rowe, Scott Sumner, stablecoin, usury, zero lower bound Edit Narayana Kocherlakota, formerly the head of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and now a prolific economics blogger, penned a recent ar... Read More
Why hasn't Canadian Tire Money displaced the Canadian dollar? joni April 26, 2016 Add Comment Bank of Canada, David Andolfatto, legal restrictions hypothesis, medium of exchange, Nick Rowe, Stephen Williamson Edit Canadians will all know what Canadian Tire Money is, but American and overseas readers might not. Canadian Tire, one of Canada's larges... Read More
A 21st century gold standard joni April 20, 2016 Add Comment coins, compensated dollar, David Glasner, gold, gold standard, Irving Fisher, Lars Christensen, Nick Rowe, quantitative easing, TIPS, zero lower bound Edit Imagine waking up in the morning and checking the hockey scores, news, the weather, and how much the central bank has adjusted the gold cont... Read More
Central banks' shiny new tool: cash escape inhibitors joni Februari 21, 2016 Add Comment Bank of Japan, cash, large value note embargo, Miles Kimball, Nick Rowe, SNB, zero lower bound Edit Thomas Jordan, Chairman of the Governing Board of the Swiss National Bank Negative interests rates are the shiny new thing that everyone wan... Read More
Does the Fed lack the technical means to dive into negative rate waters? joni Februari 03, 2016 Add Comment federal funds rate, Federal Reserve, Marvin Goodfriend, Narayana Kocherlakota, Nick Rowe, ON RRP facility, seigniorage, Stephen Williamson, zero lower bound Edit The Federal Reserve may be in a bit of a bind. With the Bank of Japan reducing rates to -0.1%, many commentators are calling on the Fed to ... Read More
Euros without the Eurozone joni Juni 29, 2015 Add Comment dollarization/euroization, ECB, lender of last resort, Nick Rowe, seigniorage, Target2, unit of account Edit This 2 euro coin is issued by Monaco, which is not a member of the Eurozone Grexit isn't what people take it to be. The standard narrati... Read More
Sign Wars joni November 15, 2014 Add Comment David Beckworth, deflation, fundamental value, inflation, John Cochrane, liquidity premium, Neo-Fisherism, Nick Rowe, notgeld, Weimar hyperinflation Edit Does a lowering of a central bank's interest rates create inflation or deflation? Dubbed the ' Sign Wars ' by Nick Rowe, this ha... Read More
Fedwire transactions and PT vs PY joni Juli 21, 2014 Add Comment clearing and settlement, Federal Reserve, Fedwire, Irving Fisher, John Maynard Keynes, Milton Friedman, Nick Rowe, quantity theory of money, System of National Accounts Edit Milton Friedman's alleged license plate, showing the equation of exchange The excruciatingly large revisions that U.S. first quarter GDP... Read More