Vast government debts are riskier than they appear

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, left, Governor of the Bank of Canada Tiff Macklem, center, and Governor of the B

2024-08-27  1011  困难

And so they took something close to a victory lap. Jerome Powell, chair of the Federal Reserve, used his speech to say that America’s labour market was no longer overheated and that the Fed would probably soon join the rate-cutting club. “You’re not supposed to say that in public,” joked Andrew Bailey, governor of the Bank of England, when Kristin Forbes of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology suggested that the decline of inflation had been a great success. One paper, presented by Carolin Pflueger of the University of Chicago, showed how, contrary to the claims of some commentators, the Fed’s rate rises had been crucial to keeping inflation expectations under control. Before inflation took off, even forecasters going against the grain and expecting prices to surge thought the Fed would fail to react to inflation—an expectation that could have caused the problem to become entrenched.

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