The Fed’s Forward Guidance: Prioritizing Labor Markets to Ensure a Robust Recovery For All
The Fed’s recent forward guidance on its zero interest rate policy was a welcome sign that the Fed’s monetary policy strategy is giving appropriate emphasis to the achievement of sustainably tight labor markets. We highlight four welcome takeaways worth celebrating and building upon.
How The Fed Jammed In A Penalty Rate Requirement For All Emergency Lending When It Didn’t Have To
By Skanda Amarnath, Alex Williams, and Arnab Datta Executive Summary This piece provides an overview of how the Federal Reserve (“Fed”) decided to require all emergency lending authorized...
By Doubling Down On Inflation Targeting, The Fed Is At Risk of Forgetting Lessons From 2008 & 2011
The Fed has chosen to double down on an inflation-oriented framework for setting monetary policy. While there are some advantages in the current environment to an “average inflation...
The Fed Still Needs To Do Its Part — Six Ways To Improve The Evans Rule To Recover Jobs And Wages
Here, we discuss six potential improvements to the Evans Rule that the Federal Reserve (Fed) should consider as it formulates its forward guidance strategy in response to the COVID-19 economic crisis.
How Congress Can Stop The Fed From Dragging Its Feet In How It Lends To Municipalities
By Skanda Amarnath Executive Summary The pricing of the Municipal Liquidity Facility (MLF) makes it virtually irrelevant for most municipal debt issuers because current market prices are well...
