Latest videos

The Institute of International Monetary Research has produced several series of videos featuring our own our staff and other leading economists from around the world.

All videos are available on our YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/c/InstituteofInternationalMonetaryResearch

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Monthly money update

In this video Professor Tim Congdon argues that broad money growth in the USA is too high to be compatible with the Federal Reserve's 2% inflation target. In recent months, US M3 has been growing at an annualised rate of between 6% and 10%. Initially, Money Market Mutual Funds were driving the growth, largely through purchases of US government debt. In the last few months, the focus has shifted the the US banking sector, which is experiencing growing demand for credit from the non-bank private sector. (the deposits created by new bank loans are, of course, money.)

With the Trump government likely to continue to run large budget deficits, inflation is likely to remain on the high side for some months. However, Central Banks - and the Fed in particular- seem to have learnt nothing form the inflationary episode which followed the 20202 Coronavirus pandemic. At the time, this Institute warned that the surge in broad money growth was going to be inflationary. We were a lone voice at the time but have been proven correct in our analysis. Sadly, we are still seen as rather a maverick organisation and one should not expect most of the economics profession to have the slightest concern about high M3 growth in the USA.

Ewen Stewart and Tim Congdon speaking at the Beloff Conference

From the Vinson Centre Beloff Conference: "Money: Its History & Alternatives to state currencies".

Webinars

Our most recent webinars are listed below. Full details of past webinars can be found on the webinar archive page.

Webinar with John Greenwood

Ewen Stewart speaks to John Greenwood on 'Monetary policy in South Africa at the time of Covid'

Webinar with Gerard Lyons

Our Director Ewen Stewart interviews the economist and commentator Gerard Lyons.

Annual Monetary Conference 2025

Why were so many economists wrong about inflation in the early 2020s?

The IIMR Annual Monetary Conference was held on 12th November at the University of Buckingham. Recordings of each of the speakers is available via the IIMR YouTube channel.  

For details of past Monetary Conferences, go to our conference archive page. 

Public Lecture 2025: Lord Burns

Lord Burns, former Permanent Secretary to HM Treasury, speaking at the annual public lecture held at the RAC Club in London, 10th of November 2025. The topic was 'Money and fiscal policy since 2007: Could we have done better?'.

For details of past public lectures, go to our conference archive page.