How Nearly Two Decades Of Fed Policy Contributed To Bubbles, Busts, And A Boom In Debt
Podcast |
Odd Lots
Publisher |
Bloomberg
Media Type |
audio
Categories Via RSS |
Business
Business News
Investing
News
News Commentary
Publication Date |
Dec 09, 2019
Episode Duration |
00:32:07

Many people like to claim that the Federal Reserve is responsible for the high degree of leverage and speculation in the economy. But the mechanism via which this happens is often misunderstood. On this week's episode of Odd Lots, we speak with Srinivas Thiruvadanthai of the Jerome Levy Forecasting Center about how the Fed's goal of inflation targeting contributed to a massive buildup in private debt. As he explains, the approach to minimizing the volatility of inflation at a low level created a perfect environment for lenders, creating all kinds of other risks elsewhere in the economy.

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