Post-Pandemic Economic Risks

Professor William A. Barnett – Director of Advances in Monetary and Financial Measurement at CFS – evaluates present economic policy risks within the context of the ten-year period beginning in 1941.

The post-pandemic period could see a similar conflict between Treasury’s desire to minimize the cost of government debt finance and the Fed’s need to moderate inflation.

A primary harbinger of inflationary pressures would be a surge in liquid monetary assets held in the economy.

Unfortunately, there has been a steady decline in the quality and quantity of money market data available from the Fed – a void that has been partially filled by CFS.

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