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Inflation was believed to be driven largely by non-monetary factors, and most people believed that if you tried to control inflation using monetary policy, the primary effect would be to throw a lot of people out of work.
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Long-run growth rates are driven by structural factors not monetary policy, which mainly affects output over the cycle.
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No matter what the specific focus of attention, however, all these factors are part of normal monetary policy.
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Moreover, the independent movement of global markets, which react to factors such as different domestic monetary and fiscal policy cycles, has historically provided considerable diversification benefits when held in combination with US investments (though correlations tend to converge on 1 in periods of financial crisis).
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LaRussa stressed the importance of evaluating all of the factors besides solely focusing on the monetary compensation of the contract.
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Other factors, such as a flawed monetary policy that burdens businesses with unnecessarily high interest rates, hurt Mexico as well.
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Because of two factors: First, easy domestic monetary policy.
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They cannot distinguish between price changes that come about because of supply-and-demand factors and those that arise because of monetary mistakes.
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While there are a variety of methods and data sources, the results consistently point to significant negative effects of taxes on economic growth even after controlling for various other factors such as government spending, business cycle conditions, and monetary policy.
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Winmill points at the debt ceiling debate as one of the factors helping to push the price of gold higher, recognizing that along with ultra-loose monetary policy, the government is running out of tools to bring down unemployment rates that have crept past 9%.
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