The Grumpy Economist
John H. CochraneNews, views, and commentary from a free market point of view. I moved from Blogger to Substack in December 2023. For previous posts back to 2011 see my Blogger page at https://johnhcochrane.blogspot.com
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An Inflation-Protected Balance Sheet
A Substack lets me share fun new ideas. Today’s: Central banks should hold inflation-protected bonds as the primary assets on their balance sheets.
Central banks have assets and liabilities like any other bank. Money—cash and reserves, wh...
Political economy in financial regulation
Interest-paying electronic money, completely safe without deposit insurance, would be a great thing. For example, Silicon Valley Bank would never have had huge uninsured deposits that ran if there had been an easy safe place for large depos...
Better Debt
The dog that didn’t bark is often meaningful.
The Treasury is buying back long-term bonds. To some extent, the Treasury views long-term bond prices as too low and yields too high. Treasury wants to raise the prices, or at least to buy bac...
Media Update
The link to Barron’s was wrong in my previous post. The correct link below:
- Megan Leonhardt at Barron’s did a Q&A on interest rates and inflation, [link now fixed] following up on my post. She did a great job of boiling down a long con...
Media
I’ve done a variety of video and other media lately that (some) readers may find interesting.
- I did a three hour (!) lecture on fiscal theory for PhD students, sponsored by the macro-finance society. It mostly covers my most recent eff...
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