The Fed

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Paul-Martin Foss

We wouldn't expect much market reaction to today's announcement, as it was already expected and should have been priced in.

Paul-Martin Foss

More and more, Fed appointees are dropping their apolitical facade.

Ron Paul

Why is the Fed holding so many secret meetings lately?

Joseph T. Salerno

Congress is hardly a great steward of financial power, but there are benefits to wrestling control of the money supply away from the Fed and returning it to Congress.

Frank Hollenbeck

Following the unconventional monetary policy of negative interest rates, central banks are now considering an even more desperate measure: "helicopter money."

Tho Bishop

Given the monetary dark arts being practiced around the world, I would much prefer my money in the hands of Gringotts goblin, than at the mercy of our Federal Reserve Chairman Who-Must-Not-Be-Named.

Paul-Martin Foss

If helicopter money is implemented, those who first gain the use of the new money may benefit by increasing consumption before prices rise, while others will see prices rise before they are able or willing to use the money. But the end result will be higher prices but no overall increase in welfare. 

Robert P. Murphy

The Fed says it's scaling back its Quantitative Easing programs, but it still maintains a huge balance sheet. Unfortunately, the Fed has no plan to really unwind its massive QE programs, and has backed itself into a corner.

Jonathan Newman

Analogies involving cars and firepower are not appropriate for monetary policy. They propagate the idea that the Fed can carefully "steer" the economy or that they have some large, heterogeneous set of policy tools, when the Fed can really only do one thing: artificial credit expansion.