On Wednesday, April 8, 2009 at 21:56:47 (-0400) Doug Henwood writes: >Fresh punditry - leading index, false dawns, depression analogies, end >of the finance premium? - at http://doughenwood.wordpress.com.
Always good to have fresh punditry. You mention the Federal Reserve and central banks in general not reflating back in the bad old days because they were trying to save the gold standard. Certainly true, but did not the Fed abandon reflation also because of classic conflict of interest --- stewards of the economy as a whole beholden to the member banks? At least, this is what I recall of Gerald Epstein and Thomas Ferguson's paper on the topic, "Monetary Policy, Loan Liquidation, and Industrial Conflict: The Federal Reserve and the Open Market Operations of 1932". I've been curious to ask Ferguson about how the Fed's behavior today is different from then. Bill _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
