Fedus Ex Machina?
From TPM Reader RC … You were wondering how Biden was able to get such a good deal; in the end all this drama just amounted to getting the budget-negotiation…
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From TPM Reader RC … You were wondering how Biden was able to get such a good deal; in the end all this drama just amounted to getting the budget-negotiation…
The Powell Federal Reserve’s fundamental weakness has been its tendency to look in the rearview mirror rather than at what lies ahead. This helped get us into our inflation mess.
Two books peel back the curtain on the central bank—but miss why it misread the economy in the wake of the pandemic.
Judging by its latest World Economic Report, the International Monetary Fund is well aware of credit-cycle risks.
The Fed’s objective is asymmetric, with inflation overshoots being more costly than undershoots. Using data from the Summary of Economic Projections it shows that the Bernanke Fed was too hawkish, the Yellen Fed was too dovish, and the Fed under Jerome Powell has at times been too hawkish and too dovish.