Description: Commentary on monetary policy in the spirit of R. G. Hawtrey
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Commentary on monetary policy in the spirit of R. G. Hawtrey
Jason Furman has had an admirable career as an economist and policy adviser. He was on the staff of the Council of Economic Advisors in the Clinton administrations, was Assistant Director of the National Economic Policy under Larry Summers in Obama’s first term served as Chairman of the CEA in his second. I am friendly with a really smart economist who worked under Furman for a couple of years at the CEA, and he spoke glowingly about that experience in general and about Furman in particular, both as an econ
Following the lead of his former boss Larry Summers, Furman has, for over a year, been an outspoken anti-inflation hawk, calling for aggressive tightening by the Fed to prevent an inflationary wage-price spiral from returning us to the bad old days of the 1970s and its ugly aftermath — the 1981-82 Volcker recession. So, after the January core inflation reports showed an uptick in core inflation in the second half of 2022, Furman responded with an overwrought op-ed (“To Fight Inflation, Fed Tightening Should