speeches · May 13, 2018
Regional President Speech
James Bullard · President
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Non-Uniform Currencies and Exchange Rate Chaos
May 14, 2018
Presentation (pdf) | Press Release
Speaking in New York, St. Louis Fed President James Bullard discussed how the current
cryptocurrency wave may be driving the U.S. uniform currency system toward something
more like the global non-uniform currency system, which is characterized by volatile
exchange rates. He noted that societies have disliked non-uniform currency systems
because the currencies trade at different values. “Cryptocurrencies may unwittingly be
pushing in the wrong direction in trying to solve an important social problem, which is how
best to facilitate market-based exchange,” Bullard said.
Similar remarks were delivered at Alternative Money University, Cato Institute, Washington,
D.C., July 15, 2018, (presentation pdf) and at The Canon Institute for Global Studies,
Conference on Macroeconomic Theory and Policy 2018, Tokyo, Japan, June 4, 2018,
(presentation pdf).
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APA
James Bullard (2018, May 13). Regional President Speech. Speeches, Federal Reserve. https://whenthefedspeaks.com/doc/regional_speeche_20180514_james_bullard
BibTeX
@misc{wtfs_regional_speeche_20180514_james_bullard,
author = {James Bullard},
title = {Regional President Speech},
year = {2018},
month = {May},
howpublished = {Speeches, Federal Reserve},
url = {https://whenthefedspeaks.com/doc/regional_speeche_20180514_james_bullard},
note = {Retrieved via When the Fed Speaks corpus}
}