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The Federal Reserve doesn’t want anyone to think it’s taking sides in politics. So in an election year, the Fed is more likely t
The Federal Reserve doesn’t want anyone to think it’s taking sides in politics. So in an election year, the Fed is more likely t
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2015-03-25
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问题
The Federal Reserve doesn’t want anyone to think it’s taking sides in politics. So in an election year, the Fed is more likely to
stand pat
. It’s less likely to raise rates if that’s what’s needed, or to cut rates if a rate cut is what’s required.
But here’s the problem: The harder the Fed tries to avoid politics—the elephant in the room—the more it allows political thinking to infect its mission. A truly apolitical Fed would do whatever is the right thing for the economy and resolutely ignore the second-guessers in both parties.
Eric Rosengren, President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, who favors more aggressive action by the Fed to raise growth and lower unemployment, made the case for a truly apolitical Fed in an interview with the Boston Globe published today. "We don’t get to pick the timing of a global slowdown," Rosengren told the Globe. " If there’s a slowdown and you have an independent central bank, the appropriate response is to act. I think that’s exactly what we should do. "
Rosengren did not go quite as far as the Boston Globe story implied—that is, he did not specifically mention election-year pressures. The Globe writers, Steven Syre and Andrew Caf-frey, paraphrased Rosengren as saying that the Fed should not worry if further easing is seen as influencing the presidential election. I wrote to them for clarification and Syre responded that "Rosengren’s quote was his response to a question about any potential political controversy around a fed stimulus vote two months before an election. " So it was the reporters who brought up politics, not Rosengren himself. That might seem like a small point, but in the arcane world of Fed politics, it matters. Tim Duy, a University of Oregon economist who blogs on Fed policy, told the Globe, "to pull back the curtain and say, ’They’re doing this for the election,’ I think is a shift and reflects his level of frustration. " That’s an overstatement of what Rosengren said.
Still, the frustration among doves is real. I wrote this week’s Bloomberg Businessweek cover story on Ben Bernanke. In it, I quoted economist Paul Krugmanas saying on his New York Times blog, "We have reached a point where the Fed is afraid to do its job, for fear of being accused of helping Obama."
Vincent Reinhart, the chief U. S. economist of Morgan Stanley(MS), whom I interviewed for the Bernanke cover, made a study of Fed decision-making in election years and concluded that the central bank’s bias was not toward being too loose or too tight but simply toward not doing very much at all. " It will tend to choose operations that are smaller and time them to keep out of scrutiny," Reinhart told me. "This particular year, a higher hurdle for action means you delay doing more accommodation. Hence, it looks biased. "
According to the fourth paragraph, we can infer that
选项
A、Rosengren paid a lot of attention to politics in Fed’s mission.
B、Rosengren mentioned politics himself during the interview.
C、Steven Syre did not directly bright up election-year pressures.
D、Rosengren’s words were overstated by other people.
答案
D
解析
推理判断题。根据题干提示定位至第四段。该段第四句指出:因此,是记者们提到了政治,而不是罗森格伦本人提到的。并且在最后一句中指出:这是对罗森格伦的言论的夸大其词。综合起来可以看出,罗森格伦的话被某些人夸大了,因此正确答案为[D]。原文第二段第一句后面的部分提到美联储急欲避开政治,[A]与此正好相反;第四段第四句提及“是记者们提到政治,而不是罗森格伦本人”,[B]与此不符;[C]与第四段第一句“他并没有具体提到大选之年的压力”相反,故均排除。
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