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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Warsh's Challenges: Monetary Policy (full version)
This is an OpEd at the Washington Post. Their title: “How to protect the economy from the ghosts of 1979.” (Really 1951!) I posted an excerpt a month ago. Here is the full version.
When Kevin Warsh was nominated in January to be Fed...
On a report to the G7
The G7 (Group of 7) economic confab is on in the lovely Evian-Les-Bains, France. A group of distinguished economists produced a report on just what problems the world economy faces and what the G7 should recommend. (Front page here, report...
Wealth tax equilibrium accounting
The recent Piketty-Saez-Stiglitz revival of wealth taxes, ostensibly to improve the lot of the poor, makes many mistakes. I’ll focus on one: the difference between wealth and consumption. The poor wish consumption. Turning capital into cons...
Shock Accounting.
In various writing, including “Inflation,” I argue that the central cause of 2021-2022 inflation was a large unfunded fiscal expansion. The government borrowed roughy $2 trillion, printed $3 trillion, and wrote people checks, with no plan t...
Supply Shocks and Nominal Anchors
Updating “Inflation,” I took “supply” and “demand” shocks more seriously, in a FTPL framework. The May inflation surge may make these thoughts extra relevant. (I thank a few thoughtful correspondents, and especially Greg Kaplan.)
Take a st...
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