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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Hoover Monetary Policy Conference 2026 Overview Essay
This is an overview essay. You can find the conference schedule, videos, and slides here or in my last post. The essay original is on the Hoover website here, with nicer formatting and pictures. This is joint with Valerie Ramey, Michael Bor...
Hoover Monetary Policy Conference 2026
The slides and videos from the May 8 2026 Hoover Monetary Policy Conference are up. I echo here, or go to the Hoover Website here in case my copy-paste doesn’t work. Valerie Ramey, Michael Bordo, Tom Church and I wrote an overview essay whi...
Tech Stock Singularity
The huge SpaceX IPO has spawned the following speculation: Index funds are forced to buy shares of new large companies, in proportion to their market capitalization. That’s a classic inelastic demand. So, as the price goes up, they buy more...
Warsh's Challenges: Monetary Policy
This is an OpEd at the Washington Post, their title “How to protect the economy from the ghosts of 1979.”
When Kevin Warsh was nominated in January to be Federal Reserve chair, the monetary policy debate was over how quickly to lowe...
Two books
The Hoover Press just released two books that I co-edited, that readers may find interesting
The Celebration Honoring John Taylor collects essays resulting from a one-day conference we had last fall. You can read the chapters for free at t...
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