America’s Inflation Villain Gets a Makeover As the Fed fights inflation with a wary eye on the 1970s, some are arguing that Arthur Burns, the Fed chair at the time, gets too bad a rap.
Jerome Powell Is Popular. His War on Inflation Could Change That. Jerome H. Powell, who is well liked across the political spectrum, is presiding over the fastest interest rate increases in generations, with another one expected this week.
Inflation Isn’t Going to Bring Back the 1970s The Federal Reserve has the tools that it needs. Now it should use them.