Not exact matches
Displaying what Donald (now Dierdre) McCloskey once characterized as «the intellectual range from M to N,» there is no real comparison of the Fed's record with that of the
system that preceded it; no mention of other monetary
systems circa 1913 that had better records than the United States (most pertinently, that of Canada); not nearly enough acknowledgment of the great harm the Fed has caused more than once in its history; no discussion of why a
few other
central banks — though surprisingly, only a
few — have performed better than the Fed; and no inkling that
central banking may not be the best of all possible
systems in the best of all possible worlds.
Particularly, in a situation such as that which exists today, where the shadow
banking system responsible for much of the last
few years of credit expansion is now dramatically contracting outside any possible control of the
central banking authorities, there is no alternative but deflationary collapse with a concomitant moon shot in the value of the world's reserve currency v. all other asset classes.
Are depressions caused by panics leading to a loss of confidence in the
system because a
few key areas have failed, and if we patch those up using government /
central bank help, everything will go back to normal?
Banco
Central do Brasil eying on Blockchain Technology for settlement
system A new technical research paper recently released by The
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