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Nighttime Must-Read: Paul Krugman: The Strange Urge to Raise Rates - Washington Center for Equitable Growth
“Monetary policy attracts crazy people like moths to a flame: goldbugs, 100-percent-reserve-banking types, amateur historians who think they know exactly what happened when Diocletian ruled Rome…
…The obsession with raising interest rates among economists who used to seem sensible…. Up to a point, Feldstein has followed the now-usual arc…. We’re talking about conservatives with vast faith in the wisdom of markets, who somehow are completely sure that markets will make terrible decisions due to low interest rates, and require paternalistic monetary policy to keep them on the strait and narrow. What really strikes me about Marty’s latest… is the muttering that there must be some sinister hidden agenda…. that central banks are operating under… a desire to help finance budget deficits. It’s very, very strange, and distressing.
Morning Must-Read: James D. Hamilton, Ethan S. Harris, Jan Hatzius, and Kenneth D. West: The Equilibrium Real Funds Rate: Past, Present and Future - Washington Center for Equitable Growth
The uncertainty around the equilibrium rate argues for more ‘inertial’ monetary policy than implied by standard versions of the Taylor rule… a later but steeper normalization path for the funds rate compared with the median ‘dot’ in the FOMC’s Summary of Economic Projections.
Talking Points on "America's Imminent Budget Crisis": Focus - Washington Center for Equitable Growth
Right now, the financial markets are telling us that for the next 20 years at least they expect not a surplus but rather a shortage of federal debt.
The interest rates at which investors are willing to hold federal debt now and expect to hold federal debt in the future tell us that it is an extraordinary valuable asset
Those interest rates tell us that investors at least think the world economy would be better off with more federal debt than with less.
The arguments against having a larger federal debt now are essentially four: that it would be unfair to future generations, that is a source of uncertainty that drags on the economy, that it is a point of vulnerability, and that we cannot trust future congresses to do the right thing to finance it should circumstances change.
