By Felix Salmon, includes “…The coronavirus crisis has made abundantly clear the awesome power of central banks in general and of the Fed in particular. … The downside to the Fed's intervention: Businesses are mostly owned by the rich, who got richer even as total employment plunged during the crisis. There is moral hazard involved in bailing out risk-takers rather than forcing them to suffer losses. And stocks are now so expensive that the Fed risks having to fight yet another crisis should the current bubble burst chaotically.”
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