“Quantitative Easing” is the latest thing to get in a tizzy about these days. Everyone seems to have an opinion on quantative easing, either in
If the Fed wants to boost economic activity, it should think about raising the federal funds target rate. Why? Wouldn’t that restrict lending? Paradoxically, it
are lukewarm at best. Today’s Wall Street Journal op-ed (“The Geithner Asset Play“) raises the appropriate objections. The goal of the plan, which is to
The recently announced Fed action has been characterized as a massive exercise in printing money, in “pumping liquidity“. But such characterizations, once again, are misleading.
The solution to the toxic asset problem, and the credit crisis, may well be the one propounded by Holman W. Jenkins in his Wall Street