Monday, April 6, 2020

How the Fed Managed the Treasury Yield Curve in the 1940s — Kenneth D. Garbade


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FRBNY — Liberty Street Economics
How the Fed Managed the Treasury Yield Curve in the 1940s
Kenneth D. Garbade

1 comment:

Calgacus said...

Alan Meltzer has observed that the Accord “ended ten years of inflexible [interest] rates” and was “a major achievement for the country.”

Rather, it was a sign of the decay of rational economic policy, a return to the pre-Keynesian economics of interest rate fetishism.