About The Money Mischief

Welcome to my blog on the interminable problems of macroeconomics, especially monetary policy.

All of the recent events(COVID-19 recession, FAIT, etc.) show that we are on the verge of change. However, the most important problems of macroeconomics still remain unresolved. Indeed, one goal of this blog is to show that we have fundamentally misdiagnosed the nature of the business cycles and monetary policy.

For several years I have written floods on Twitter and Medium, especially on the Great Recession, business cycles, NGDP Targeting, and Market Monetarism. This summer I noticed that these places are unfortunately not suitable for me, I simply couldn’t fit in 280 characters. I needed long-running blog posts, not floods trapped in 280 characters.

I know that a blog must be more interesting than a research paper, so I’ll circle around these issues. I’d like to mix together observations on current political or economic events, and commentary on other economic blogs.

About Me

My name is Kürşad Görgen and I study economics at İstanbul Bilgi University. My primary research interests are monetary theory through the effects of monetary policy on business cycles, the history of monetary thought, and analyses of public policies on a macroeconomic basis. I’ve been studying these fields for several years and wrote about these topics on Twitter, Medium, and Daktilo1984. I am also a former intern at the Cato Institute for the Fall 2022 term.

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