Money and Banking

With an election coming, the Fed has lost its enthusiasm for raising interest rates, much to the benefit of the incumbent party.

Do central banks have a plan? Do they know what they are doing? The BBC wonders, and Jeff Deist provides some of the answers.

It is impossible to isolate the "natural rate" and policies aimed at an unknown interest-rate target end up increasing instability.

As in much of the globe, central bankers in Britain are quickly replacing elected politicians as the most visible and powerful public officials.

We are less than a month away from the election and it can not be over soon enough.

People have a natural preference for having good things now instead of having them later. This is a problem for advocates of negative interest rates.

Americans are saving very little money for emergencies. Unfortunately, central banks have been encouraging the same thing worldwide.

As another step toward greater use of negative interest rates, the abolition of cash will only lead to the destruction of wealth.

It turns out that the Japanese people do not have the Apoplithorismosphobia that their government officials have.

The claims about a "moneyless" utopian village in India turn out to be false. No one with an understanding of economics should be surprised.