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  • April 29, 2021
    Working Paper
    Technopopulism and Central Banks
    Technopopulism and Central Banks
    … hate” (Rajan 2017). A concern, then, is that as populist movements gain strength, they will transfer the reins of monetary policy from these quintessential technocrats to “the people,” eroding central bank independence and price stability (Buiter 2016, de Haan and …
    By Carola Conces Binder
  • January/February 2021
    Policy Report
    Tunnels, Bunkers, and Escape Hatches
    Tunnels, Bunkers, and Escape Hatches
    … free, open, and functional financial system is a fundamental human right, albeit one that is continuously violated by states and policymakers globally. The threats posed to this right by governments are many, varied, and often interconnected. Inflation, confiscation, capital controls …
    By Jill Carlson
  • January/February 2021
    Policy Report
    Monetary Conference Examines Digital Currencies
    Monetary Conference Examines Digital Currencies
    Now in its 38th year, Cato’s annual Monetary Conference is the Institute’s longest‐​running event, bringing together leading experts to discuss the most pressing issues in monetary policy. This year’s conference, held virtually on November 19, featured …
  • February 11, 2021
    Working Paper
    COVID Cash
    COVID Cash
    The sanguine view of rapid paper currency growth is reexamined, assessing it from the perspective of the consolidated government balance sheet.
    By Jessica Scazzero
  • December 4, 2020
    Working Paper
    Janet Yellen's Lift Off
    Janet Yellen’s Lift Off
    … no good reason? I argue that neither view is correct. Instead, the roots of the Fed’s untimely rate hike, and Yellen’s part in it, lay in her and other Fed officials’ ill‐​conceived plans for “normalizing” monetary policy.
    By George Selgin
  • November/December 2020
    Policy Report
    Democrats for Freer Trade?
    … judge of the World Trade Organization’s Appellate Body—lays out the possibilities. “Democrats and Trade 2021: A Pro‐​Trade Policy for the Democratic Party” (Policy Analysis no. 900) lays out the case for Democrats to avoid what he calls …
  • September/October 2020
    Policy Report
    How to Avert a Fiscal Catastrophe
    … current budgetary process are the real driver of the problem, and real reform means process reform, not just articulating concrete policy objectives. In the foreword, David Walker, U.S. comptroller general from 1998 to 2008, explains bluntly: “The truth is …
  • September/October 2020
    Policy Report
    A New Kind of Empire
    By Emma Ashford, Richard Maass, and Patrick Porter
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