The Fed announcement
Get the details almost anywhere else, read Scott Sumner too. I’ve been tied up, but I have been able to follow my Twitter feed.
Evan Soltas wrote:
It needs to be said that today’s FOMC statement is a major intellectual win for econ bloggers and academics.
Neil Irwin:
What they’re doing is basically the Evans approach minus explicit numerical targets for unemployment/inflation that trigger tightening.
Ross Douthat:
When the true history of the Obama era is written, it will be a joint biography of Ben Bernanke and John Roberts.
Binyamin Applebaum:
Bernanke: We’re not trying to increase inflation, but we might act more slowly to reduce inflation if it should happen to happen.
I say the rate of price inflation is going up. I see this as a free lunch, and I am quite curious to find out just how big or small of a free lunch it is going to be.