Finley Edwards

I teach economics at Colby College

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Fight of the Century: Keynes vs. Hayek Round Two https://t.co/Wzw1JipNjh #EC134

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Film length is 1 hr 44 min. #almostdone #m4n

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@alexabusser It's also an oversimplification.

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Director Jim Bruce went to Middlebury, puts his Econ Prof (Colander) in Film. One of you need to make a documentary and put me in. #m4n

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Alright, who let the mayonnaise guy in? #m4n

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"Presided over the socialization of risk" - best quote so far in my opinion. #M4N

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Temporarily. Right #m4n

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This is why central bank independence is so important! #m4n

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FOMC as balance of powers: seven gov't votes, five votes from private banks (in theory at least) #M4N

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Technically the Treasury department prints money, but the Fed tells it when to print #M4N

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@ntdonato I'm afraid this is as loud as it's going to get #M4N

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Let's get started. #M4N

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@DavidSherris Probably not since the chair (Janet Yellen) holds so much power. Theoretically it could though.

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2009 piece by Mankiw in the @nytimes on how to achieve negative nominal interest rates: http://t.co/gCJ3TNYVJe #EC134

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@FedDocumentary My Principles of Macro class at Colby College will be watching and live tweeting the film at 3pm 4/30 using the hashtag #M4N

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Special announcement coming in #EC134 today!

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Matthew Gentzkow wins the 2014 Clark Medal: http://t.co/j93IcrfPR1. Congrats to @GlennMacro and @samilton4372 for correct prediction #EC134

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@alexabusser The issue is that buying bonds is a Demand for Loadable Funds. People buy more bonds -> increase in demand -> higher r #EC134

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WSJ: Handicapping the John Bates Clark Medal http://t.co/Rn3V5j9Mzp #EC134

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My prediction for the 2014 John Bates Clark Medal: Roland Fryer http://t.co/9p3wQwlEGt #EC134