How to Use monetarism in a Sentence
monetarism
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But monetarism appeared to lose its relevance in the last decade-plus of easy money.
—Shawn Tully, Fortune, 13 Apr. 2022
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Only devotees of Friedman’s strict monetarism could deny that the new leaders will have a tough act to follow.
—Tom Saler, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Sep. 2017
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Yet the recessions stoked by monetarism did immense harm.
—The Economist, 31 Aug. 2019
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The long denial of the importance of productive growth was in part owing to the rise of monetarism, a theory that emphasizes the money side of the equation.
—French Hill and Amity Shlaes, WSJ, 29 July 2022
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According to monetarism, asset-price inflation should have occurred with a lag of one to nine months.
—John Greenwood, WSJ, 20 July 2021
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These feelings, more than any strong commitment to monetarism, convinced him that gentle rate-raising would not be enough.
—The Economist, 12 Dec. 2019
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The Great Depression set the stage for a shift away from strict monetarism and laissez-faire policies toward Keynesian demand management.
—Nancy Birdsall, Foreign Affairs, 16 Feb. 2011
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Today, monetarism’s quantity theory of money is out of vogue, to put it mildly.
—Shawn Tully, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2022
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The professor is a proponent of monetarism, an economic theory that holds that changes in the money supply are the main driver of inflation.
—Bywill Daniel, Fortune, 13 July 2023
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Some who like to throw cold water on monetarism argue that the velocity of money has collapsed and will mitigate the inflationary impact of the rapid growth of the money supply.
—John Greenwood, WSJ, 20 July 2021
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Where the Fed went wrong on inflation, according to Hanke Put simply, monetarism holds that a huge surge in the money supply will eventually trigger a surge in inflation.
—Shawn Tully, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2022
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Hanke is a leading champion of monetarism, a field holding that changes in the money supply are the top force determining the rate of inflation and expansion or contraction in GDP.
—Shawn Tully, Fortune, 30 May 2023
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While some claim that this results in too much money chasing too few goods — the classic inflationary setup — the issue is that monetarism does not explain the historical data.
—Phillip Braun, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2021
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Yet consumer price inflation began that period at 2.6% and ended it at 0.7% — the opposite of what monetarism would have predicted.
—Washington Post, 6 Feb. 2022
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Larson was of the generation that was rejecting property, monetarism and, well, the acquisition of useless stuff.
—Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 4 Mar. 2021
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Yet even Volcker, who pioneered the use of monetarism at the Fed, ultimately abandoned a strict reliance upon money supply growth in managing the economy.
—Washington Post, 6 Feb. 2022
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And, although little noticed, monetarism in academia was being knocked off its pedestal because empirical studies were showing that monetary policy wasn’t all-important.
—Martin Sullivan, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2022
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In a remarkable second phase of his career, Mundell faced down Keynesianism and monetarism not only theoretically, but practically.
—Brian Domitrovic, Forbes, 4 Apr. 2021
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For him, this was a time when the policies that economists almost universally endorsed—tax breaks, austerity, deregulation, free trade, monetarism, floating exchange rates, reduced antitrust enforcement, low inflation, among others—were enacted.
—Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein, The New Republic, 30 Sep. 2019
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Some economic theories, such as monetarism, focus on the Federal Reserve’s expansionary monetary policy as driving inflation.
—Phillip Braun, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2021
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