Theory and practice both tell us that printing money cannot generate economic growth or lower the natural rate of unemployment, but it can cause inflation.

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My good friend and sometime mentor, Brian Wesbury, argues that the natural rate of interest is the same as the nominal GDP growth rate.

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In theory the natural rate will tend towards the expected nominal growth rate of the economy, so you want to keep that at zero.

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The five-year mean global temperature has been flat for the last decade, which we interpret as a combination of natural variability and a slow down in the growth rate of net climate forcing.

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