Simon-Wren Lewis Is Puzzled by Economists and Monetary Policymakers Calling for More Contractionary Monetary and More Contractionary Fiscal Policy: Tuesday Focus: January 28, 2014

He is puzzled. And so am I… Simon Wren-Lewis: Mainly Macro: Bullard on the ‘Death of a Theory’: James Bullard, President of the St. Louis Fed… kindly sent me his article (pdf) entitled ‘Death of a Theory’… the theory he is referring to is the idea of fiscal stimulus at the Zero Lower Bound (ZLB)…. I… … Continue reading Simon-Wren Lewis Is Puzzled by Economists and Monetary Policymakers Calling for More Contractionary Monetary and More Contractionary Fiscal Policy: Tuesday Focus: January 28, 2014