federal reserve

The (Almost) Irrelevance Of Reserve Requirements

29 January 2012

Earlier this week, the Reserve Bank of India reduced banks’ reserve requirements by 50bps. It’s called Cash Reserve Ratio and the RBI reduced it from 6.00% to 5.50% with effect from the following week. The Reserve Bank of India is one of the most backward central bank in liquidity management and sometimes panics and changes [...]

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Alfred Eichner And Federal Reserve Operating Procedures

1 January 2012

Alfred Eichner was a Post-Keynesian economist known for his text Macrodynamics of Advanced Market Economies published 3 years after his death in 1988. He died at the age of 50 in an accident and at the time he was preparing to include an analysis of open economy macroeconomics in his story of how economies work. [...]

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The Globalization Paradox

27 August 2011

I am reading Dani Rodrik’s The Globalization Paradox and borrowed the title for this post. I am curious as to what Barry Eichengreen has to say in his talk at the Federal Reserve’s annual forum at Jackson Hole, Wyoming. He is the author of the book Exorbitant Privilege: The Rise And Fall Of The Dollar And The [...]

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