"Proceedings from the 2022 Hoover Institution monetary policy conference examine recent inflation in the wake of fiscal and other shocks and measures by the Federal Reserve intended to counter inflation."

Front Cover -- Book Title -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I. Our Coming Tsunami -- II. Facing Up to the Elephants in the Room: Medicare and Medicaid -- III. Cutting Through the Social Security Fog -- IV. There Is No Time Left to Punt...

Think long / George P. Shultz -- Policy principles : lessons from the Fed's past / Allan H. Meltzer -- The market view : incentives matter / Peter Fisher -- Monetary policy in the financial crisis / Donald Kohn -- Concerns about the Fed's new balance sheet / James D. Hamilton -- The need for a...

The domestic landscape / Michael J. Boskin -- In brief : spending / George P. Shultz -- Entitlements and the budget / John F. Cogan -- A blueprint for tax reform / Michael J. Boskin -- Transformational health care reform / Scott W. Atlas -- Reforming regulation / Michael J. Boskin -- National...

"In Central Bank Governance and Oversight Reform, the distinguished contributors tackle this and a range of other key questions surrounding the balance of central bank authority with accountability and constraints. They discuss the conflicting public attitudes towards the Fed. The authors...

What caused the financial crisis -- What prolonged the crisis -- Why the crisis worsened dramatically a year after it began -- What went right in the two decades before the crisis -- Why a black swan landed in the money market in August 2007