Adam Posen
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first heard Aug 2025
last heard 1 Sep
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beyond just the obvious they're sympathetic to their colleagues from the Fed and it's pretty yucky, is just the fact that they have taken it for granted.
The entire economics profession is taking it for granted.
for more than forty years, going back to a classic paper by Ken Rogoff in nineteen eighty six and then some subsequent work others did, that in central bank independence is good.
It reduces inflation and reduces the volatility of inflation on average for a country in a large way without reducing the average growth rate.
Full stop and this is
lived experience.
This is
What the European Central Bank was based on.
This is why the Bundesbank and the Germans were willing to give up sovereignty to the European Central Bank.
This is the standard practice that dozens of countries have adopted.
The Bank of Japan got independence over the last thirty years.
So it's kind of like with trade economists in the past, but even more on questions.
It's like, you know, this is like questioning vaccines, which of course nowadays people do, but at one point would have been thought of as what kind of anti-scientific illiterate are you that you would question central bank independence.
So I mean, there's no way to exaggerate.
That's the response.
At various international versions of central bank summer camp, you know, which is what Jackson Hole is.
So the f E C B has their version, which is called the Centra Conference.
And this year at Centra, everybody was rallying around Jay, the chair Powell, and there were public statements about central bank independence and support for him.
at the BIS annual meeting, which is a sort of similar thing, which this year I got invited to.
I don't usually get invited to that.
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