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On Federal Reserve policy: The “taper” and its shadow: Central-Bank policymakers need to better explain what they see as the risks of further Federal Reserve bond purchases

Brad DeLong, professor of economics | September 28, 2013

We are live at Project Syndicate. The central banks of the North Atlantic have promised that they will not raise the short-term safe nominal interest rates they control until the economies under their stewardship show substantial economic recovery. So far the economies have not done so: they continue to be battered by the destructive fiscal … Continue reading »