central banking

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• SOURCE: Project Syndicate
  8/31/2021
  

  Back to the Seventies?

  by Kenneth Rogoff

  Problems of political economy complicate the job central bankers face in setting interest rates. From international relations to domestic politics to an aging population, an economist considers the similarities and differences between now and the 1970s. 

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• SOURCE: Foreign Policy
  5/13/2020
  

  The Death of the Central Bank Myth

  by Adam Tooze

  A financial historian argues that it's time to see institutions like the European Central Bank and the Federal Reserve as political actors and question how and why they act.