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Category Archive: Brad Setser

1. What If The Fed’s Isn’t Printing Money Like A Drunken Sailor?

   1 Post on June 12, 2009

   What if con­ven­tional wis­dom about the Fed is wrong and it isn’t print­ing money like a drunken sailor? Well…that would make most of the media cov­er­age of the bond mar­ket and the econ­omy wildly off the mark. As it turns out while media talk­ing heads were rant­ing about how the Fed was run­ning their print­ing presses […] [read full story]

   Posted in: Bernanke, Brad Setser, Economic Statistics, Federal Reserve, Finance, M1, M2, M3, monetary policy, Money Supply, Politics, Public Policy

2. II" rel="bookmark">Don’t Worry About The Debt Tsunami Part II

   0 Post on June 8, 2009

   Last week I wrote that the for­ward cal­en­dar of to-be-issued gov­ern­ment and mort­gage related debt isn’t going to swamp the econ­omy. Since I wrote my arti­cle Paul Krug­man wrote an arti­cle cit­ing research done by Brad Setser that sup­ports my the­sis. Setser’s analy­sis pre­dates my arti­cle and is really high qual­ity work. I am cer­tain that […] [read full story]

   Posted in: Brad Setser, economy, Finance, Fiscal Policy, Paul Krugman, Public Policy, Savings Rate