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For unsuspecting depositors of online financial start-ups, the unraveling of a little-known intermediary has separated them from their life

#deposit insurance #ch10

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.

#ch7 manager's objective

Uber’s offering was supposed to be a crowning moment for the ride-hailing company. But it suffered setback after setback and ultimately resulted in pointed questions for all involved.

#IPO #ch7 #stock prices

“Are you working in our interests? Or are you trying to screw me?”

#swaps #derivatives #bankruptcies #ch13

A futures bet gone spectacularly wrong provoked a daylong crisis at one of the clearinghouses that are supposed to be global safeguards.

#ch13 #clearinghouse #derivatives

The opening of a canal in 1848 led to the birth of modern financial derivatives, and the early demise of some of the men who traded them

#derivative #ch13

In 1976, Friedrich Hayek published a short pamphlet, The Denationalization of Money. Worried that political constraints in developed countries prevented central banks from tackling the high inflation at that time, he argued that money-issuing should be opened to market forces, and the government monopoly on the provision of means of exchange should be abolished. Hayek envisioned a system of private monies in which the forces of competition would induce banks to provide a stable means of exchange (Hayek 1999). Despite some attention (e.g.

#money #ch3

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 just ...

#monetary policy #announcements #ch16

John Rapley’s claim that economics has become a religion has kicked off another debate about the state of economics. For me, there seems to be a presumption here which both sides seem to share but which I don’t – or...

#efficient market #ch7

Do you know the true story of how a careless clerk, while burning up some outdated money, caused the Great Fire of 1834 which destroyed bot...

#money #ch3

Moneylending has been taboo for most of human history. So how did usury stop being a sin and become respectable finance?

#ethics #banking #ch10

Why teaching someone else is the best way to learn

#teaching #learning

John's presentation at the 44th Economics Conference of the Austrian central bank (ONB).

#stock market #regulation #ch7 #ch9

In investing, as in physics, the insights of outstanding individuals and of crowds of experts are both valuable. But following any approach blindly leads to trouble.

#buying strategies #ch7

Creative Planning is at the vanguard of a profound shift in finance — from firms peddling products for a fee toward independent, low-cost advice.

#independent financial advisors #ch7

Here is a new concluding section which I have just written for my paper “Rules versus Discretion in Monetary Policy: Historically Contemplated” which I spoke about last September at the…

#time inconsistency #policy rules #ch16

As banks pull back, automation should be welcomed

#bonds #ch5

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