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Agree to Disagree: Can the Fed Manage a Soft Landing?

Jul 15, 2022

53:17

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Episode guests

Yeva Nersisyan

Dean Baker

Highlights

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Is It Unfair to Blame the Bid Administration?

02:10

Does the Fed Know What It's Doing?

02:40

Supply Chain Problems - Is There a Demand Store?

04:25

Introduction

2min

Is the FET a Good Tool to Combat Inflation?

3min

Are You Crediting the Fed?

4min

The Fed Has Never Managed to Guide the Economy to a Soft Landing

3min

Is the Fed Taking Responsibility for Inflation?

2min

The Fed Has Never Been Able to Lower Inflation Without Raising Interest Rates

2min

The Fed Is Using Unemployment to Lower Inflation

4min

The Fed Doesn't Have a Theory of Inflation

5min

Does the Fed Know What It's Doing?

3min

10.

The Fed Cannot Solve Supply Side Problems

3min

11.

Oil

5min

12.

Oil Prices Have Fallen by About 20 % in the Last Two Weeks, Three Weeks?

2min

13.

Is It Unfair to Blame the Bid Administration?

2min

14.

Supply Chain Problems - Is There a Demand Store?

4min

15.

The Fed Can Manage a Soft Landing, One More Time?

2min

16.

Why the Fed Shouldn't Be Raising Interust Rates?

2min

17.

Youhaver Nacesian and Dean Baker, Thanks for Tuning In

2min

The Fed recently announced aggressive interest rate hikes and is signaling more to come. Its goal? To stabilize the economy amid surging inflation (reaching rates not seen in some 40 years) and lingering supply chain disruptions and shortages. But can the Fed actually manage a so-called "soft landing"?

Arguing "yes" is Dean Baker. Arguing "no" is Yeva Nersisyan. Emmy award-winning journalist John Donvan moderates.

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