Meet the Blogger Who May Have Just Saved the American Economy

Date: Sep 14 2012

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Professor Scott Sumner (YouTube.com)By Joe Weisenthal

The Fed’s announcement of QE Unlimited was a clear departure from past strategy: Rather than seeing asset purchases as an amount of money injected into the financial system, the Fed is now aggressively using the power of future guidance.

It’s a step in the direction of Nominal GDP targeting, the hot idea endorsed recently by Michael Woodford at the Jackson Hole conference.

But while Woodford is one of the most respected monetary academics in the world, the economist who…

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