Adam Posen

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Odd Lots · Adam Posen Thinks Things Could Get Very 'Messy' for the Fed · 1 Sep 2026 podcast

I think he

smartly and justifiably first under COVID.

And then uh when the Fed was under such overt attack by Trump

Saying

Let's not dissent and give and create

divisions in the committee casually.

Let's let's make the bar very high.

F so, you know, if you dissent, I understand, but let's not show division because that just gives the attackers on the Fed, or in the case of COVID, that just gives the sense of panic.

And there is always this temptation.

So like when I was on the Bank of England MPC, which was two thousand nine to twelve, so I was there during the financial crisis.

And there was a point at which the governor and the Bank of England had a much live uh debate.

publicly at least than than the Fed.

Then Governor Mervyn King came at one point and said, Look

Quantitative easing's really controversial.

We're gonna take the vote.

You'll vote however you want.

But once we've done it, can we have a moratorium on people

asking whether or not quantitative easing works or not

a while.

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