The Fed's Silent Endorsement of Trump’s Economic Policies
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The Fed's Silent Endorsement of Trump’s Economic Policies
The economy enters a period in which economic dysfunction becomes unbearable to one social faction, even while another continues to benefit.
Let us give you one scenario that worries us. Congress shows no discipline and lets the budget run through a few more trillion in the next two years. The Fed has been successful in reflating the economy after it has embarked on even more aggressive quantitative easing. The bond markets get very nervous, and longer-term rates start to rise. What lit
... See moreThe sum total of the contribution of both these schools of thought is the consensus taught in undergraduate macroeconomics courses across the world: that the central bank should be in the business of expanding the money supply at a controlled pace, to encourage people to spend more and thus keep the unemployment level sufficiently low. Should a cen
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