HOFFMEISTER: Dr. Meltzer, you are of course one of the leading economists of the world and the expert on the history of the Federal Reserve. When did you first become interested in monetary policy? DR ...

Jason Fernando is a professional investor and writer who enjoys tackling and communicating complex business and financial problems. Gordon Scott has been an active investor and technical analyst or ...

Anna J. Schwartz died today at age 96--the less-heralded partner of Milton Friedman in his celebrated work on monetary history. Although surely comfortable with her compatriot's worldview, she was, by ...

Bernanke and Blinder, both former U.S. Federal Reserve officials, have written complementary books on the history of central banking and macroeconomic policy in the United States. In contrast to ...

In February 2018, Agustin Carstens, the General Manager of the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, gave a speech at Goethe University in Frankfurt, entitled "Money in the digital age: what ...

Anna Schwartz was the co-author of "A Monetary History of the United States," a classic work of economics that helped forge a new consensus among economists on the roots of the Great Depression. Ms.

The Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank have been invoking specific historical analogies to defend their monetary-policy approaches. But, in appealing to events that are seared into popular ...

Discover how monetarism impacts economic stability through money supply control, its key tenets, and how it compares to ...

Federal Reserve rate-hiking cycles are often followed by a recession. Stocks tend to move in a big way once an official recession is declared. Long-term-minded investors have a green light to put ...