Well Richard Koo agrees with MMTer Dan Kervick that the Fed has "shot its wad" as the President of the United States was wont to say, but Koo has some idiosyncratic views as Krugman has pointed out.
...But even at the best of circumstances, those so-called  non-traditional policies achieve very little. I mean, probably better  than nothing, but just a little of positive, whereas having the correct  fiscal policy can have a huge impact on economy in the current  circumstances.  Because so many people are pinning their hope on the  federal reserve, there's little discussion on what is the right fiscal  policy and that I think is very unfortunate. 
 
And the second part of the problem is that if central banks are  viewed in such a way that these guys are going to pump money into the  system so that something happens to the nominal GDP, that can cause  people to worry that if they're gonna pump that much money into the  system, the dollar may collapse. And that can cause another set of  problems like foreign investors dumping U.S. treasuries or something  because if they know that central bank has limited capacity but are  forced to do something to get the nominal GDP going, people might assume  that "Well then, the central banks might really do something crazy,"  and thats not good for the credibility of the dollar or the central  bank.
 
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