Certainly, perhaps more than anything else economics plays a critical role in politics. But I think this is a stretch. In fact, I would blame 85% on fiscal policy and the blatant incompetency of Washington:
'Fool's' monetary policy helped create Donald Trump, says ex-Fed president Fisher
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Unconventional monetary policy that has squeezed the middle class helps explain
Donald Trump's improbable political journey, according to former Dallas Fed President Richard Fisher.
Looking at the current political situation causes Fisher to "weep for my country," the ex-central bank official said last week in a speech to the Urban Land Institute's fall conference. A transcript of the remarks was included Thursday in a note from Doug Kass of Seabreeze Partners Management, but the speech has seen little if any exposure otherwise. (Kass is mentioned favorably in the speech for predicting a "generational low" in bond yields.)
Fisher confirmed to CNBC that he made the comments.
The speech covers a gamut of historical and fictional figures from Winston Churchill to Eva Peron to Homer Simpson in describing the despair that has arisen from monetary policy that "every banker, insurer, long term investor and business operator I know thinks ... is becoming a fool's game."
"Small wonder that we have ended up at a political crossroad, with a choice for the presidency between a candidate who advocates having government distribute still more to ease the pain and another arguing to provide relief by changing gears entirely, though we know not how, when or where." -Richard Fisher, former Dallas Fed President Fisher argued in the past that low rates and money-printing were distorting market values and severely hurting savers, but
the Fed has kept the pedal floored on easy monetary policy since the financial crisis....
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