Bullard: Rethinking Monetary Policy

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It is a pleasure to be here today to discuss this important conference topic, “Rethinking Monetary Policy.”The financial crisis of 2007‐2009 and its aftermath turned monetary economics and policymaking on its head and called into question many of the conventional views held before the crisis. One of the most popular and enduring views in all of monetary economics since the 1970s, and indeed since the 1940s, has been that a nominal interest rate peg is poor monetary policy, and that attempts to pursue such a policy would lead to ruin.Yet, post‐crisis U.S. monetary policy could be interpreted as exactly that—an ... (full story)