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Editors’ Briefing: This Week in Political Economy (May 12-May 19)
Wells Fargo is in hot water again; President Trump reportedly pushed the US Postmaster General to double the rate that Amazon pays to ship...
The Only Game in Town: Central Banking as False Hope
To accompany Paul Tucker’s mini-course at the Stigler Center this week, we offer here an extract of the former Bank of England Deputy Governor’s...
Depositors Disciplining Banks: The Impact of Scandals
Can depositor activism make a real difference? New research set to be presented at the upcoming Stigler Center Political Economy of Finance conference examines the Dakota...
Return of the State: Banking on Diplomacy
If, as California political legend Jesse M. Unruh once quipped, “money is the mother’s milk of politicians,” it’s reasonable to expect that countries might...
Editors’ Briefing: This Week in Political Economy (April 14–April 28)
Why has Facebook’s scandal not dented its earnings? How much are states and local governments giving to corporations in economic-development incentives? And did CFPB...
Editors’ Briefing: On Our Radar This Week (March 3-March 10)
This week in political economy.
ProPublica has created a searchable database of 2,475 political appointees by the Trump administration, the result of “a year...
What Insights Do Taxi Rides Offer into Federal Reserve Leakage?
Does investment-relevant information leak from the Fed? A new Stigler Center working paper finds surprising and novel evidence in a public dataset.
One of the...
Does the Growth of Bitcoin Have Anything to Do with Distrust of Government?
The results of the latest Financial Trust Index (FTI) survey, released last week by Chicago Booth and the Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management, offer...
Wider and Direct Access to Financial Market Infrastructure Is the Next Step for a More Competitive Financial Market
The potential impact of Europe's revised Payment Services Directive, known as PSD2, should not be underestimated, as banks adapt to a flatter and more competitive...
Where Will the Crypto Craze Lead? A Venture Capitalist’s View
Can individual cryptocurrencies be programmed with stability in mind and if so, could a plethora of cryptocurrencies exhibit, in the aggregate, stable behaviors?
By now,...
