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How the Fed Ended Up Fueling a Subprime Boom

George Selgin/April 17, 2015June 19, 2022

Plenty of writers have claimed that the Fed fueled the sub-prime boom by holding interest rates too low for too long after the dot-com crash.   But hardly anyone has tried to explain why it did so. Yours truly has taken a stab at it, together with his…

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The Fed and the Recovery, or, QE not D

George Selgin/April 2, 2015June 19, 2022

Lately more and more people seem inclined to congratulate the Fed for the great job it has done saving us from another Great Depression and getting the U.S. economy back on its feet. Frankly, I’m getting tired of it. It’s not that I’m cock-sure that the Fed’s post-2008 actions haven’t…

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