Friday, 30 December 2022

Fiscal-monetary interaction

An email correspondent sent the above graph. The title is [Federal Reserve] Liabilities and Capital: Liabilities: Earnings Remittances Du...

Wednesday, 28 December 2022

Calomiris on Gramm Ekelund and Early on Income Distribution.

Charles Calomiris has a splendid WSJ review of a great book, " The Myth of American Inequality " by by Phil Gramm, Robert Ekelun...

Monday, 26 December 2022

FTPL revised Ch. 5 draft

The book isn't out yet, but I can't help myself... A revised draft of Chapter 5, fiscal theory in sticky price models is up on my we...

Friday, 23 December 2022

Stanford hates fun

Source: Stanford Daily Stanford hates fun is the title of the second Stanford article in the Wall Street Journal this week. (On t...

Tuesday, 20 December 2022

Expectations and the neutrality of interest rates video

I revised "Expectations and the neutrality of interest rates" and presented at the Hoover Economic Policy workshop. Thanks to the...

Thursday, 15 December 2022

CDC, more on politicized agencies

Continuing a series on rot and politicization in administrative agencies... "Sure" comments on Marginal Revolution are fascinatin...

Tuesday, 13 December 2022

Second great experiment second update

The November CPI is in, and inflation continues to moderate despite interest rates that, while rising, are still below current inflation. T...

Climate disclosures and politics by bureaucracy

One of the most important and under-reported struggles under the radar is the politicization of administrative agencies, and the effort to c...

Saturday, 10 December 2022

Twitter and universities

From Rob Wiesenthal at the Wall Street Journal  re Elon Musk and Twitter:  Minutes after closing his purchase of the company, he started a...

Tuesday, 6 December 2022

Fiscal Theory of the Price Level discount coupon

The Fiscal Theory of the Price Level is now available from Princeton University Press . The official release date is Jan 17, but both hard...

Friday, 2 December 2022

Waller courage

While the rest of the Fed climbs on the maybe-anvils-might-fall-from-the sky climate financial risk fantasy,  Chris Waller has the courag e...

Monday, 28 November 2022

California homeless math

From WSJ   California Gov. Gavin Newsom ....recently put a temporary freeze on $1 billion of state grants for city and county homelessness...

Thursday, 10 November 2022

The second great experiment update

 Our great experiment in monetary economics continues.  The news of the moment is that inflation might--might--be peaking. I just present...

Friday, 4 November 2022

Academic Freedom Conference Opening Statement

Opening remarks, Conference on Academic Freedom John H. Cochrane Nov 4 2022 Welcome to the Academic Freedom Conference. I’m John Cochrane...

Thursday, 3 November 2022

Academic Freedom Conference

On Friday and Saturday Nov. 3/4, the Stanford GSB Classical Liberalism Initiative will host a two day conference on Academic Freedom. Confer...