On Aug 9, 2011, at 3:08 PM, raghu wrote:

> That says more about the other policymakers than it does about Bernanke.

Well, yeah.

> Even Paul Krugman (who is normally very reluctant to criticize his
> former senior colleague at Princeton) thinks Bernanke is not doing
> anywhere near enough:
> http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/22/profiles-in-fed-cowardice/

What else can they do? They're going to keep interest rates close to 0 for two 
more years and they've bought $600 billion in Treasury paper over the last year 
or so. Would we be better off if they'd bought $850 billion?

Doug
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