Published Dec 14, 2015
George Selgin on Monetary Policy and the Great Recession
George Selgin offers a critical analysis of the Federal Reserve's role during the 2008 financial crisis, arguing that its monetary policies and crisis interventions, including the Lehman Brothers collapse, fostered moral hazard and sluggish economic recovery by mishandling key elements of crisis management and supporting insolvent banks.
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