All posts for the month March, 2021

Are you worried about inflation? Don’t be

Last summer, the Fed switched to “average inflation targeting.” The Fed’s main goal is to ensure that the PCE inflation will average around 2% over the long term and that future overshoots will compensate for any short-term discrepancies. Although a starting point is not specified, we can assume that January 2020 is the beginning. Therefore, according […]

NeoFisherian experiment in Turkey: Here we go again

Yesterday Erdogan dismissed the head of the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey’s, Naci Agbal, and replaced him with professor Sahap Kavcıoglu. In a previous post, I claimed that Turkey has willingly or unwillingly adopted a kind of NeoFisherian policy. In this post, I will discuss this case within the framework of this hypothesis. […]