Authors:

  • Robert Barro

Excerpt

Is Politics Getting to the Fed? Robert Barro, July 23, 2019, Opinion, "In the early 1980s, the chairman of the US Federal Reserve, Paul Volcker, was able to choke off runaway inflation because he was afforded the autonomy necessary to implement steep interest-rate hikes. Today, the Fed is clearly under unprecedented political pressure, and it is starting to show." Link