Queasing Over Quantitative Easing, Part VI

10/10/2010

David Merkel submits:

I am no fan of quantitative easing, as readers may know. One aspect of the dislike comes from the one-sided view of how low interest rates benefit the economy. They do not benefit the economy, at least not as far as the following are concerned:

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