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By Martin Feldstein
Published: November 2 2010 20:50 | Last updated: November 2 2010 23:34
The Federal Reserve's proposed policy of quantitative easing is a dangerous gamble with only a small potential upside benefit and substantial risks of creating asset bubbles that could destabilise the global economy. Although the US economy is weak and the outlook uncertain, QE is not the right remedy.
Under the label of QE, the Fed will buy long-term government bonds, perhaps one trillion dollars or more, adding an equal amount of cash to the economy and to banks' excess reserves. Expectation of this has lowered long-term interest rates, depressed the dollar's international value, bid up the price of commodities and farm land and raised share prices.
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