positive outlook: Kocherlakota

A Tale of Two Fed Presidents by Krugman

There’s an interesting contrast with one of the real intellectual heroes here, Narayana Kocherlakota of the Minneapolis Fed, who has actually reconsidered his views in the light of overwhelming evidence. In our political culture, this kind of switch is all too often made into an occasion for gotchas: you used to say that, now you say this. But learning from experience is a good thing, not a sign of weakness.

Eureka! Paul Krugman Discovers the Bank of France by David Glasner

I believe he has discussed it before.