Posts tagged 'Base Money'

Once you turn base money into short-term debt, can you go back?

Izabella Kaminska joined FT Alphaville in October 2008. Before that she worked as a producer at CNBC, a natural gas reporter at Platts and an associate editor of BP's internal magazine.

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| Jan 16 17:35 | Comment |

Forget about the $1 trillion coin debate.

The most exciting wonky discussion being had right now is between Steve Randy Waldman and Paul Krugman over whether “base money” and short-term debt are perfectly substitutable or not, and what that may or may not mean for central bank policy.

We confess that we have a bit of a vested interest here because for a long time we’ve been arguing much the same point as Waldman.

That’s not to say that Krugman is necessarily wrong; he may just be taking Waldman slightly too literally. Read more

The base money confusion

Izabella Kaminska joined FT Alphaville in October 2008. Before that she worked as a producer at CNBC, a natural gas reporter at Platts and an associate editor of BP's internal magazine.

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| Jul 03 2012 13:01 | Comment |

FT Alphaville had an interesting email exchange with Peter Stella this past week, snippets of which we would like to share (with Stella’s permission).

Stella is currently the director of Stellar Consulting, an organisation that provides macroeconomic policy advice and research to central banks, governments, and private clients. He was formerly the head of the Central Banking and Monetary and Foreign Exchange Operations Divisions at the International Monetary Fund. He has co-authored a number of papers on the topics of money supply, collateral and risk-free assets. Read more

Trial of the Pyx

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| Feb 11 2009 10:59 | Comment |

Since the twelfth century, the coinage of the realm has been assayed in an arcane ritual known as the Trial of the Pyx.

Every February for the past 800-odd years, a delegation from the Royal Mint, under armed guard, has brought a set of small chests (pyx) to Goldsmiths’ Hall (previously to Westminster Abbey) for the ceremony. The pyx have been loaded with coins – one coin from every batch of each denomination minted in the year. Usually several thousand. Read more