Trump Fed chair’s inflation strategy: leave it to the market | Eduardo Porter

Kevin Warsh would rather stay out of the fray – and thus devalue the Fed’s credibility as an economic steward It must feel strange to argue that government action is inevitably counter-productive – illegitimate even – when the government is you. For the last half century, the Republican party has been comfortable with the contradiction. It’s framed in that clever quote from Ronald Reagan’s 1981 inaugural: “Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.” Solutions, i...

By Eduardo Porter