Adam Posen
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1,220 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2025
last heard 1 Sep
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in the UK, he's the one who leapt into action with a couple key staffers.
He was chief economist of the bank at the time and said, Look, these little countries are trying inflation targeting, but we think it can work for us and he did it.
And so he was the father or the parent of what these what used to be known as the fan charts.
They you would
no.
There were a few of us scattered around, but it was definitely a niche product.
Um and there are problems better or worse with the van charts and the Bank of England is
Changed it.
But basically
Mervyn was leading the effort and we cited this hugely, Bernanke et al.
cited this hugely in our book.
Um that they were again back to the combination of accountability and transparency.
that you were sending out a forecast, you were being pretty much more explicit than central banks usually were about the forecast.
You were with the fan charts, which are essentially colored spreads about how likely a given outcome would be.
Here's what we centrally think is gonna happen.
Here's what's may happen.
You were trying to give the message this was probabilistic, that, you know, we're making our best guess.
But
probably gonna air on the high side and it's gonna be somewhere around here.
So anyway, it it it was
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