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Birth of the U.S. Dollar | Roger Lowenstein

Forward Guidance

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The Federal Reserve's Mandate Drift

You chronicled the rise of the Federal Reserve. How have you seen its mandate drift? I believe maybe was in the sixties that it came up with the idea of stable employment and stable inflation, the dual mandate. But then there's sort of a hidden mandate that asset prices shouldn't go down. And if asset prices crack, that means they were too high and we'll survive.

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