Friday, October 06, 2017

Krugman on Fed; Corbyn

Get Ready for Prime Minister Jeremy Corbyn by Rachel Shabi

Will Trump Trumpify the Fed? by Krugman 
For more than a decade the Fed chair has been a distinguished academic economist — first Ben Bernanke, then Janet Yellen. You might wonder how such people, who have never been in the business world, who have never met a payroll, would deal with real-world economic problems; the answer, in both cases: superbly. 
In particular, both Bernanke and Yellen responded effectively to a once-in-three-generations economic crisis despite constant heckling from back-seat drivers in Congress and on the political right in general. And their intellectual and moral courage has been completely vindicated by events.

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