Monetary Economics

• The Importance of Central Bank Independence Council for Economic Advisors, The White House, May 22, 2024
  
• China Says It Will Start Buying Apartments as Housing Slump Worsens By Alexandra Stevenson and Siyi Zhao, The New York Times, May 17, 2024. [The central bank said it would provide $41.5 billion in cheap loans to help state-owned enterprises buy housing built but not sold.]
  
• Taylor Rule Remains Central to Interest Rate Discussions By David Plendered, Economy Matters (blog, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta), August 3, 2023
  
• What banks do with your money By Abha Bhattarai, Talia Trackim and Martin Tognola, The Washington Post, July 6, 2023
  
• This country is ditching its currency for US Dollar. Here's why. By Uptin, YouTube, June 3, 2023
  
• The Country Behind the $100,000,000,000,000 Bill Hits a New Stage of Dysfunction By Gabriele Steinhauser and Bernard Mpofu, The Wall Street Journal, March 23, 2023
  
• Banks Are Borrowing More From the Fed: What to Know By Jeanna Smialek and Joe Rennison, The New York Times, March 24, 2023
  
• How the Fed Opened Pandora’s Box By Jeanna Smialek, The New York Times, February 25, 2023
  
• AP Macro gets a makeover By Darian Woods and Adrian Ma, The Indicator from Planet Money, NPR, August 15, 2022
  
• Inflation shows both the value and limits of monetary-policy rules The Economist, July 14, 2022
  
• Inflation Isn’t Going to Bring Back the 1970s By Ben Bernanke, The New York Times, June 14, 2022
  
• Wonking Out: Why Monetary Policy Has Gotten So Hard By Paul Krugman, The New York Times, June 10, 2022
  
•  March 2020: How the Fed Averted Economic Disaster By Nick Timiraos, The Wall Street Journal, February 18, 2022
  
• Libor, Long the Most Important Number in Finance, Dies at 52 By Lananh Nguyen and Jeanna Smialek, The New York Times, Jan. 12, 2022
  
• How Softies Seized the Fed By Paul Krugman, The New York Times, November 23, 2021
  
• Teaching the New Tools of Monetary Policy Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
  
• Teaching the Linkage Between Banks and the Fed: R.I.P. Money Multiplier by Jane Ihrig, Gretchen C. Weinbach, and Scott A. Wolla, Page One Economics, September 2021
• Krugman Wonks Out: What We Talk About When We Talk About Money By Paul Krugman, The New York Times, May 21, 2021
  
• Japan’s Stock-Playing Central Bank Racks Up $56 Billion Gain By Megumi Fujikawa, The Wall Street Journal, Nov. 26, 2020
  
• For Fed’s Disaster Junkie, Pandemic Was One of 99 Bad Scenarios By Craig Torres, Bloomberg Businessweek, September 23, 2020
  
• In unusual deal, U.S. Treasury to acquire 30 percent of trucking company in exchange for $700 million loan By Jeff Stein and Aaron Gregg, The Washington Post, July 1, 2020
  
• Stock market recovers after Fed announces it will buy corporate bonds By Hannah Denham, The Washington Post, June 15, 2020
  
• Bank of England to directly finance UK government’s extra spending By Chris Giles and Philip Georgiadis, Financial Times, April 9 2020
• When central banks take over securities markets By Izabella Kaminska, Alphaville (blog), Financial Times, March 26 2020
• How the Fed’s Magic Money Machine Will Turn $454 Billion Into $4 Trillion By Jeanna Smialek, The New York Times, March 26, 2020
• Video:
•  How does raising interest rates control inflation? The Economist, YouTube, June 9, 2022 
• Monetary Policy, part 4 of 4: The Fed in Action Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, YouTube, December 2, 2021
• Monetary Policy, part 3 of 4: Reservation Rate and Arbitrage Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, YouTube, December 2, 2021
• Monetary Policy, part 2 of 4: Two Important Interest Rates in Monetary Policy Implementation Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, YouTube, December 2, 2021
• Monetary Policy, part 1 of 4: The Fed and the Dual Mandate Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, YouTube, December 2, 2021
  
• What are Open Market Operations? By Marginal Revolution University, YouTube, June 26, 2018 
• How the Federal Reserve Works: After the Great Recession By Marginal Revolution University, YouTube, April 3, 2018
• How the Federal Reserve Worked: Before the Great Recession By Marginal Revolution University, YouTube, March 13, 2018
• When the Fed Does Too Much Marginal Revolution University YouTube Channel, August 22, 2017
• Monetary Policy: The Negative Real Shock Dilemma Marginal Revolution University YouTube Channel, August 15, 2017
• Monetary Policy: The Best Case Scenario Marginal Revolution University YouTube Channel, August 8, 2017
•  The Fed as Lender of Last Resort By Marginal Revolution University, YouTube, August 1, 2017
  
• The Money Multiplier Marginal Revolution University YouTube Channel, July 25, 2017
• What Is Money? Marginal Revolution University YouTube Channel, July 18, 2017
• Monetary Policy and the Federal Reserve Marginal Revolution University YouTube Channel, July 11, 2017
• Crypto and Digital Currencies
• Don’t Get Fooled Again by Crypto By Eswar Prasad, The New York Times, August 9, 2024
  
•  Cryptocurrencies II: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) LastWeekTonight, YouTube, April 24, 2023
• Why Stablecoins Fail: An Economist’s Post-Mortem on Terra By Russell Wong, Economic Brief, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, July 2022, No. 22-24
  
•  Crypto currencies and digital money: Taking stock By Jean-Pierre Landau, Vox EU, June 27, 2022
  
• Fintech IMF eLibrary
  
• Platforms, Tokens, DeFi and Smart CBDC By Jonathan Payne, Princeton Bendheim Center for Finance, YouTube, June 9, 2022
  
• Cryptoeconomics By Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok [Textbook Chapter]
  
• CBDCs in emerging market economies BIS Papers, April 14, 2022
  
•  Money and Payments: The U.S. Dollar in the Age of Digital Transformation by Federal Reserve Board, January 20, 2022
  
•  The Future of Payments: Cryptocurrencies, Stablecoins or Central Bank Digital Currencies? By Tony Richards, Reserve Bank of Australia, November 18, 2021 
• Could digital currencies put banks out of business? The Economist YouTube Channel, May 8, 2021
  
• China Creates Its Own Digital Currency, a First for Major Economy By James T. Areddy, The Wall Street Journal, April 5, 2021
  
• Why China's New Digital Currency Raises Privacy Concerns Wall Street Journal, YouTube Channel, March 17, 2021
  
• Why Central Banks Want To Get Into Digital Currencies CNBC YouTube Channel, March 5, 2021 
• The Future of Currency By Susan Athey, Stanford Graduate School of Business, YouTube, October 26, 2018
• The Economics of Bitcoin & Virtual Currency By Susan Athey, Stanford Graduate School of Business, YouTube, June 18, 2015