John B. Taylor News
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President Barack Obama is betting he learned enough lessons from Herbert Hoover to revive an economy still slowed in the wake of financial crisis.
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Few economists accurately predicted Colombia’s central bank interest rate increase last month. The Taylor Rule did and points to a quarter-point increase today, next month and in May, said Citigroup Inc.
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The Federal Reserve may not complete the full $600 billion of securities purchases it announced last week to stimulate the economy, said Stanford University economist John B. Taylor .
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Tax cuts enacted under the administration of former President George W. Bush shouldn’t expire, according to John B. Taylor , a Stanford University economics professor and a former Treasury undersecretary.
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Europe should ignore U.S. calls for continued stimulus and stick to austerity plans when Group of 20 leaders meet this weekend because budget cuts aren’t likely to trigger a new recession, economist John B. Taylor said.
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The end of Ben S. Bernanke’s term as Federal Reserve chairman in January 2014 hasn’t stopped investors from betting the central bank will hold the benchmark interest rate close to zero into the following year.
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Federal Reserve officials are struggling to find consensus on a policy rule that’s predictable to investors yet flexible enough to adjust to shifts in the economy or markets.
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There are bad ideas, and there’s the proposal that economists from Goldman Sachs Group Inc. released Oct. 14. They suggested that the Federal Reserve Board target a nominal gross-domestic-product growth rate of 4.5 percent to decide how much money to inject into the economy. The econo- speak name for this practice is “NGDP targeting.” The question is whether that unlovely abbreviation makes it into mainstream English and becomes policy.
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Wagers on President Barack Obama’s re-election are rising in tandem with stock prices, just as the fortunes of his Republican predecessor George W. Bush did in 2004, suggesting incumbency counts more than party affiliation in the markets.
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Forty years ago this month, President Richard Nixon sharply shifted his economic policy in an interventionist direction with deleterious economic results that continued for a decade and provide lessons for today.
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