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The stewardship of monetary policy and economic progress often falls to these entities charged with running their country’s financial systems. The art and science of central banking lie in these important works.

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8 Book

Trillion Dollar Triage
How Jay Powell and the Fed Battled a President and a Pandemic—and Prevented Economic Disaster
Nick Timiraos
Little, Brown US, 2022
8 Book

Firefighting
The Financial Crisis and Its Lessons
Henry M. Paulson Jr. et al.
Penguin Two, 2019
8 Article

Could Negative Interest Rates in the US Ever Happen?
Hardly anybody thinks they’ll take root, pointing to their blah record overseas. Not so fast.
Larry Light
Chief Investment Officer, 2020
8 Report

What is Yield Curve Control?
Sage Belz and David Wessel
Brookings Institution, 2019
8 Report

Executive's Guide to Fed Policy and Associated Risks: Part 2
Understanding Financial Stability Risks as Monetary Policy Shifts
Dana M. Peterson and Hollis W. Hart
The Conference Board, 2021
8 Article

Will central-bank digital currencies break the banking system?
Perhaps. But that might not be so bad.
The Economist
The Economist, 2020
8 Article

The Age of Magic Money
Can Endless Spending Prevent Economic Calamity?
Sebastian Mallaby
Foreign Affairs, 2020
8 Article

Why is the New Zealand government telling its central bank to focus on rising house prices?
Tyler Powell and David Wessel
Brookings Institution, 2021
8 Book

Greenspan's Fraud
How Two Decades of His Policies Have Undermined the Global Economy
Ravi Batra
Palgrave Macmillan, 2005
8 Report

Executive's Guide to Fed Policy and Associated Risks: Part 1
Understanding the Role of the Fed and the Tools at Its Disposal
Dana M. Peterson and Hollis W. Hart
The Conference Board, 2021
9 Article

For Lessons on Fighting Inflation, Skip Over Volcker to 1946
Scott Minerd
Guggenheim Investments, 2022
8 Article

The Sovereign Fed
Trevor Jackson
Dissent Magazine, 2020