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“jeffrey m lacker”

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  • Fifty Years of the Shadow Open Market Committee

    A Retrospective on Its Role in Monetary Policy

    Edited by Jeffrey M. Lacker, Michael D. Bordo, Mickey D. Levy, John B. Taylor ...
    Fifty Years of the Shadow Open Market Committee: A Retrospective on Its Role in Monetary Policy is a deep dive into the fifty-year history of the Shadow Open Market Committee (SOMC), a group of private academic economists that acts as the Federal Reserve's outside watchdogs, providing candid, economically grounded critiques of the Fed's conduct of policy. The volume, based on a two-day symposium ... Read more

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  • 13 Bankers

    The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown

    by Simon Johnson, James Kwak ...
    In spite of its key role in creating the ruinous financial crisis of 2008, the American banking industry has grown bigger, more profitable, and more resistant to regulation than ever. Anchored by six megabanks whose assets amount to more than 60 percent of the country’s gross domestic product, this oligarchy proved it could first hold the global economy hostage and then use its political muscle to ... Read more

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  • 21st Century Monetary Policy

    The Federal Reserve from the Great Inflation to COVID-19

    by Ben S. Bernanke ...
    21st Century Monetary Policy takes readers inside the Federal Reserve, explaining what it does and why.In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Federal Reserve deployed an extraordinary range of policy tools that helped prevent the collapse of the financial system and the U.S. economy. Chair Jerome Powell and his colleagues lent directly to U.S. businesses, purchased trillions of dollars of ... Read more

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  • Pension Ponzi

    How Public Sector Unions are Bankrupting Canada's Health Care, Education and Your Retirement

    by Bill Tufts, Lee Fairbanks ...
    The vast majority of Canadians are blissfully unaware that every man, woman and child in Canada now owes a $35,000 share of government debt and must pay this back, with interest! Make no mistake, this debt will change our country and affect every single Canadian in the decades to come. You may think you have planned for your retirement and are safe, but the government must find a way to recover ... Read more

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  • The Benefit and The Burden

    Tax Reform-Why We Need It and What It Will Take

    by Bruce Bartlett ...
    A thoughtful and surprising argument for American tax reform, arguably the most overdue political debate facing the nation, from one of the most respected political and economic thinkers, advisers, and writers of our time.THE UNITED STATES TAX CODE HAS UNDERGONE NO SERIOUS REFORM SINCE 1986. Since then, loopholes, exemptions, credits, and deductions have distorted its clarity, increased its ... Read more

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  • Between Debt and the Devil

    Money, Credit, and Fixing Global Finance

    by Adair Turner, Adair Turner ...
    Why our addiction to debt caused the global financial crisis and is the root of our financial woesAdair Turner became chairman of Britain's Financial Services Authority just as the global financial crisis struck in 2008, and he played a leading role in redesigning global financial regulation. In this eye-opening book, he sets the record straight about what really caused the crisis. It didn’t ... Read more

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  • Why Minsky Matters

    An Introduction to the Work of a Maverick Economist

    by Larry Randall Wray ...
    Perhaps no economist was more vindicated by the global financial crisis than Hyman P. Minsky (1919–96). Although a handful of economists raised alarms as early as 2000, Minsky's warnings began a half-century earlier, with writings that set out a compelling theory of financial instability. Yet even today he remains largely outside mainstream economics; few people have a good grasp of his writings, ... Read more

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  • In the Wake of the Crisis

    Leading Economists Reassess Economic Policy

    Edited by Olivier Blanchard, David Romer, Michael Spence, Joseph E. Stiglitz ...
    Prominent economists reconsider the fundamentals of economic policy for a post-crisis world.In 2011, the International Monetary Fund invited prominent economists and economic policymakers to consider the brave new world of the post-crisis global economy. The result is a book that captures the state of macroeconomic thinking at a transformational moment.The crisis and the weak recovery that has ... Read more

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  • Financial Crises, Liquidity, and the International Monetary System

    by Jean Tirole ...
    Once upon a time, economists saw capital account liberalization--the free and unrestricted flow of capital in and out of countries--as unambiguously good. Good for debtor states, good for the world economy. No longer. Spectacular banking and currency crises in recent decades have shattered the consensus. In this remarkably clear and pithy volume, one of Europe's leading economists examines these ... Read more

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  • The Financial Crisis

    Who is to Blame?

    by Howard Davies ...
    There is still no consensus on who or what caused the financial crisis which engulfed the world, beginning in the summer of 2007.A huge number of suspects have been identified, from greedy investment bankers, through feckless borrowers, dilatory regulators and myopic central bankers to violent video games and high levels of testosterone among the denizens of trading floors. There is not even ... Read more

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  • The Fed Unbound

    Central Banking in a Time of Crisis

    by Lev Menand ...
    Do the Fed’s efforts to stabilize the economy worsen inequality?The Federal Reserve, the U.S. central bank, was built for a monetary system composed primarily of investor-owned, government-chartered banks. But over the years, the erosion of banking law and the rise of alternative forms of money created outside of the banking system have pushed the Fed to take on more and more responsibilities to ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • Taxing Ourselves, fifth edition

    A Citizen's Guide to the Debate over Taxes

    by Joel Slemrod, Jon Bakija ...
    The new edition of a popular guide to the key issues in tax reform, presented in a clear, nontechnical, and unbiased way.To follow the debate over tax reform, the interested citizen is often forced to choose between misleading sound bites and academic treatises. Taxing Ourselves bridges the gap between the oversimplified and the arcane, presenting the key issues clearly and without a political ... Read more

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