观点美联储

No easy end to easy money

Kevin Warsh won’t be able to fix the Fed without a responsible Congress and president

There is a certain “truthiness”, as the comedian Stephen Colbert might put it, to the idea that we are about to have a get-real conversation about monetary policy in the US. Despite constantly calling for lower interest rates, President Donald Trump has nominated as the next Federal Reserve chair Kevin Warsh, who announced a little over two months ago that “money on Wall Street is too easy, and credit on Main Street is too tight”. A