Arthur Burns: shorthand for Fed failure?
History remembers Arthur Burns as the Fed chair who let inflation run rampant. That's precisely the outcome that current Fed chair Jerome Powell wants to avoid. Today, we look back at the '70s to find out what went wrong.
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The Indicator from Planet Money
en-usFebruary 02, 2023