https://twitter.com/LHSummers/status...59615379918849
"-The Fed's been trying to put the brakes on and it doesn't look like the brakes are getting much traction. And when your brakes don't get much traction, two things happen. You can be moving too fast, that's the inflation pressure.
- And you can be setting yourself up for some kind of collision or a crash down the road.
And both of those things, I think, are real risks in this environment.
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We clearly have an economy where demand is super strong. The highest ratio of vacancies to unemployment we've ever seen. Retail sales on fire. The economy creating jobs faster right now than population growth by a factor of five in the latest month.(phillips curve)
-If you look at the broadest measures of inflation, the median inflation component at its highest rate in 40 years, running close to 7 percent."
Lawrence H. Summers:Secretary of the Treasury for President Clinton and Director of NEC for President Obama,(Clinton başkanlığı döneminde Hazine Bakanı(Bakanlığı döneminde ABD federal devlet bütçesi uzun yıllar sonra bütçe fazlası vermişti),Obama Baskanlığı döneminde ulusal ekonomik konsey başkanı,dünya bankası eski başekonomisti,Harvard üniversitesi eski rektörü ve profesörü)