A False Choice

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Count President Biden’s top labor economist, Janelle Jones, as among the few who thinks that the Federal Reserve should keep its foot on the gas. At 6.2 percent, inflation is up to its highest rate in decades. Yet the Fed has not only set rates to near zero but is also still buying long-dated securities—quantitative […]

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