Socionomics is a financial theory that some kind of collective social mood drives observable political, economic, and financial trends.

Central banks in late 2021 kicked off the steepest and most coordinated series of interest rate hikes in four decades to contain the postpandemic inflation outbreak (see Chart 1). Many economists ...

Christopher Sims, the John J. F. Sherrerd ’52 University Professor of Economics, Emeritus, and a Nobel laureate whose work ...

U.S. Treasury yields moved sharply higher on Friday morning as markets reassessed the near-term path of monetary policy following the Federal Reserve’s latest decision to hold rates steady.

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It has been well said by others that so-called “Modern Monetary Theory (MMT)”—similar to the Holy Roman Empire—is not modern, not monetary, and not a theory. Interestingly, Mises made this argument in ...

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The San Francisco 49ers will not be playing in the Super Bowl, because they lost to the Seattle Seahawks by a disgraceful score of 41 to 6 over the weekend. But of course, “someone wins, someone loses ...

Something is amiss with Japanese government bonds (JGBs). On January 20th the country’s longest-dated debt sold off sharply. The yield on 30-year bonds rose by a quarter of a percentage point, the ...

Neel T. Kashkari, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, defended Jerome H. Powell, the Fed chair, in an interview. He also said interest rates should be held steady this month. By ...

The Federal Reserve’s policy decisions in recent years have contributed to a worsening of economic inequality in America, and some of the central bank’s policymakers say it’s not a problem they can ...