We Trust Central Banks . . . To Do the Wrong Thing
Posted on May 18, 2012 at 09:11 AM EDT
In recent months central banks have resorted to using the phony “credibility” issue. The claim is that they had to fight hard in the 1970s and early 1980s to get markets to believe they were serious about inflation. Fortunately, that is simply not true. Markets have little difficulty figuring out what central banks are [...]