Two-Armed Economists Need Not Apply

The ghost of Harry Truman is surely still wandering about the financial netherworld looking for the proverbial one-armed economist. He famously called for the latter after enduring too much “on the one hand” versus “on the other hand” advice from government economists. Yet 75-years later Jerome Powell reminds us once again that the two-armed modality […]

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