Tag Archives: Policy

Policy Priorities of French National-Front Majors

The Economist identifies three main policies that National-Front politicians implement in municipalities after they get to power:

  • Reaffirmation of Christianity,
  • security clamp-downs, and
  • spending cuts.

Residents in towns run by a NF major “are happy with their mayor, citing cleanliness and security as chief reasons.”

Macroeconomic Policy

In a Vox column, Olivier Blanchard distills ten takeaways from an IMF conference on “Rethinking Macro Policy. Progress or Confusion?’” He lists them under the following headings:

  1. What will be the ‘new normal’?
  2. What the new normal will be matters a lot for policy design
  3. Can we hope to limit systemic financial risk?
  4. Should monetary policy go back to its old ways?
  5. Instrument rules
  6. Macroprudential tools or financial regulation
  7. Should central banks keep their independence?
  8. Little progress on the design of fiscal policy
  9. The complex effects of capital flows
  10. How much can the international monetary system be improved?