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"The Stock Exchange as Barometer"1 comment

Lars Christensen wrote 3 months ago: At the core of Market Monetarist thinking is the view that financial markets are incredibly importan … more →

H. L. Mencken comments on the ECB2 comments

Lars Christensen wrote 5 months ago: I just found this wonderful quote from the American journalist and freethinker Henry Louie Mencken o … more →

Tags: ECB, H. L. Mencken

My Skåne vacation and what I am reading10 comments

Lars Christensen wrote 10 months ago: It is vacation time for the Christensen family so I might not be blogging too much in the next coupl … more →

Tags: Reading Recommendations, Milton Friedman, Larry White, Robert Hetzel, Tobias Straumann, Barry Eichengreen, Rose Friedman

Danish and Norwegian monetary policy failure in 1920s - lessons for today14 comments

Lars Christensen wrote 11 months ago: History is fully of examples of massive monetary policy failure and today’s policy makers can … more →

Tags: Economic and monetary history, Reading Recommendations, EURO-CRISIS, Deflation, exchange-rate policy, Gold Standard, Norway, Denmark

Gustav Cassel on Hoover's Mistake and monetary policy failure5 comments

Lars Christensen wrote 11 months ago: While I was going through old Australian newspaper articles (don’t ask me why…) I came a … more →

Tags: Economic and monetary history, The Great Depression, Hoover's Mistake, monetary policy failure

Maybe Jens Weidmann and Francios Hollande should switch jobs10 comments

Lars Christensen wrote 1 year ago: There seem to be two main positions on how to solve the European crisis. One represented by Bundesba … more →

Tags: ECB, EURO-CRISIS, Fiscal Policy, Monetary institutions, Monetary Policy, Monetary policy rules, MV=PY, The Euro, Calvinist

Expectations and the transmission mechanism - why didn't anybody think of that before?13 comments

Lars Christensen wrote 1 year ago: As I was writing my recent post on the discussion of the importance of expectations in the lead-lag … more →

Tags: Monetary Policy, Monetary institutions, MM Research agenda, Reading Recommendations, General economic theory, Monetary policy rules, Milton Friedman, transmission mechanism, Hayek

I am blaming Murray Rothbard for my writer's block46 comments

Lars Christensen wrote 1 year ago: I have promised to write an article about monetary explanations for the Great Depression for the Dan … more →

Tags: Austrian economics, douglas irwin, federal reserve, George Selgin, Gold Standard, Larry White, Monetary institutions, New Casselian economics, Scott Sumner

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard comments on Market Monetarism2 comments

Lars Christensen wrote 1 year ago: The excellent British commentator Ambrose Evans-Pritchard at the Daily Telegraph has a comment on th … more →

Tags: The Great Recession, MM Research agenda, EURO-CRISIS, Scott Sumner, Market-Monetarism, Market Monetarist, euro crisis, Ambrose Evans Pritchard, Ralph Hawtrey

Gustav Cassel foresaw the Great Depression9 comments

Lars Christensen wrote 1 year ago: I might be a complete monetary nerd, but I truly happy when I receive a new working paper in the mai … more →

Tags: douglas irwin, Economic and monetary history, MM Research agenda, Monetary institutions, Monetary Policy, New Casselian economics, Reading Recommendations, Market-Monetarism, Market Monetarist

"Our Monetary ills Laid to Puritanism"14 comments

Lars Christensen wrote 1 year ago: Douglas Irwin has been so nice to send me an article from the New York Times from November 1 1931. I … more →

Tags: Economic and monetary history, EURO-CRISIS, Monetary Policy, New Casselian economics, The Great Depression, Economic and Monetary History, euro crisis, Great Depression

Calvinist economics - the sin of our times19 comments

Lars Christensen wrote 1 year ago: A couple a days ago I had a discussion with a colleague of mine about the situation in Greece. My vi … more →

Tags: Monetary Policy, Economic and monetary history, MM Research agenda, The Euro, The Great Depression, General economic theory, Market-Monetarism, Market Monetarist, New Casselian economics


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