Monetary Policy
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Platformonomics TGIF #113: January 23, 2026
Platformonomics TGIF is a weekly roll-up of links, comments on those links, and perhaps a little too much tugging on my favorite threads. Get Platformonomics Updates By Email The first hyperCAPEX companies report next week and I assume everyone is as giddy as I am for full 2025 CAPEX numbers. News Automating the Federal Reserve:…
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Bringing the Federal Reserve into the Agentic Era
Like leap year, every four years my quadrennial quest to algorithmically set the federal funds rate rolls around. I’ve pitched a software substitute for Ben, Janet, Jerome (twice), and now offer it in lieu of a Kevin (Hassett or Warsh). The original announcement has been updated slightly for agentic AI advances and current norms of…
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Let a Bot Run the Federal Reserve: 2021 Edition
Here is my quadrennial plea to put our monetary policy in the hands of a bot (and happy to call it a smart contract if that makes it more au courant). Despite my best efforts, Bernanke, Yellen, and Powell all got the nod over the bot. But the risks of human policy error have never…