Narayana Kocherlakota, Columnist

The U.S. Can and Should Boost Growth

The government has the power to improve people's lives and ease social tensions. So why not do it?

August 4, 2016 at 11:00 AM UTC

Narayana Kocherlakota is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. He is a professor of economics at the University of Rochester and was president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis from 2009 to 2015.

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What can or should the U.S. government do about the economic malaise that has gripped the country for more than a decade and helped fuel a populist backlash?

Actually, plenty.