Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Fed’s More Aggressive Move May Not Go Far Enough

For much of the last year, there were three basic camps on what the Federal Reserve should be doing.

One focused on the risks of the Fed’s taking more action to help the economy. This camp — known as the hawks, because of their vigilance against inflation — worried that the Fed could be sowing the seeds of future inflation and that any further action might cause global investors to panic.

Another camp — the doves — argued instead that the Fed had not done enough: inflation remained near zero, and unemployment near a 30-year high.

2 comments:

  1. I tend to side more with the "hawks". This move to invest over $500 billion is extremely risky since it could possibly not be effective and almost inevitably will cause inflation in the future.

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  2. I feel like it is a lot of money to be circulating and i dont know how this will effect the economy. I can see it leading to too high of inflation rates and causing more chaos.

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