#Monetary

Today’s nominally solid scenario depends on policymakers not making any major mistakes.

In 1971, as the international monetary system was on the brink of collapse, U.S. Treasury Secretary John Connally told a group of worried European finance ministers that the dollar was “our currency, but your problem.” The dollar had become that system’s…

International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva and Venezuelan economic official Calixto Ortega held talks in Washington, the IMF head’s first in-person meeting with country’s authorities since the fund resumed formal engagement with…

Ever since Covid, central banks around the world have had the same problem. They have tools that are designed to modulate demand, but so many challenges have involved the supply side of the economy.…

From Bloomberg: The BoE's Megan Greene on Monetary Policy in a World of Supply Shocks

Ever since Covid, central banks around the world have had the same problem. They have tools that are designed to modulate demand, but so many challenges have involved the supply side of the economy.…

Citigroup Inc. says central Africa’s monetary bloc should consider devaluing its currency, which is pegged to the euro, in order to boost economic growth and stem a slide in reserves.

Michael Pettis frequently claims that, by running large surpluses, China is forcing “the demand-suppressing cost of their policies onto their trading partners.” The idea here is relatively straightforward: by disincentivizing consumption within China,…

From Reddit - r/economics: Powell Says Monetary-Policy Independence at Risk From Legal Assaults

From ships ‘jumping’ locations due to GPS interference to how the RBI controls inflation—and what heatwave criteria are—here are 3 key concepts simplified for UPSC Prelims 2026.

It’s been over 10 years since I published Understanding the Modern Monetary System, one of the most widely read papers in the SSRN research database. I published this paper because [ … ]