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Maroon Macro
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Maroon Macro writes Monetary Mechanics, a personal blog at maroonmacro.substack.com about economics and business. Since 2021, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “Milton Friedman’s Interest Rate Fallacy”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
My original proprietary macro research covering the mechanics of the monetary system, financial plumbing, economic history, and its influence/impact on the global economy.
Most-linked posts?
- Milton Friedman’s Interest Rate Fallacy2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-01-11
What Hacker News says?
> It was Clinton's deregulation Eurodollar system was already alive for almost a century by then: "The first seeds of the eventual eurodollar bloom, in domestic US terms, were sown all way back in sixteen – as in the year 1916. Believe it or not, the Federal Reserve Act, then only a few years old, had been modified so that banking syndicates (those able to raise the princely sum of $1 million capital) could form wha…
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on “Is the world economy entering a wage-price spiral?”Submitted Milton Friedman’s Interest Rate Fallacy as a story · 115 points
HN discussionSubmitted Issue #47: Consensus Mechanisms in Traditional Finance and Decentralized Finance as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Milton Friedman's Interest Rate Fallacy as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted What’s the Deal with Nominally Negative-Yielding Bonds? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Decentralized Finance (DeFi) Can Improve Wholesale Clearing and Settlement as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Issue #23: The Bull Case for Decentralized Finance (DeFi) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Commercial Banks and the Real Economy as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted RUS-UKR War and Ramifications for Global Supply Chains and Commodities Markets as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Genesis of “Ledger Money” and the Modern Financial System as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Origins and Evolution of the Modern Monetary System as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Collateral Transformation as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Issue #51: Understanding Balance Sheet Capacity as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Issue #50: Trade Idea – Short StETH as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted An Obituary for Libor and the Transition to SOFR as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Issue #27: Deeper Dive into Decentralized Finance (DeFi) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Issue #25: The US Repo Market as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Issue #21: Trade Idea – Short CNH as a story · 1 points
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